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Creative Psychics 

The Art of Regeneration 




The Science and Art of the Religion 
of the Future; a Positive Science of 
Metapsychics and the Art Expression 
of Regenerative Mysticism; an Inter- 
pretation of the Emancipation of the Age 



BY 

FRED HENKEL 



Printed for the Author by the 

GOLDEN PRESS 

203 Tajo Building 

Los Angeles, California, U. S. A. 

1917 






PART TWO 

A series of essays for preliminary reading dealing with 
the: 

Evolution of Life, Spirituality and Art: 

(Part II and the subsequent prepared writings will be pub- 
lished in case the interest and sale of the first part is indicated 
by the demand for them. Those interested are requested to 
communicate with the author.) 

The general development of the human soul. 

The perception of the Supernatural. 

Life. 

Religion. 

Art. 

The fourth dimensional arts. 

Causes and effect. Life and its relation to fact and experience. 

Aestheticism. 

Mysticism, the cult of Reconciliation. 

The emancipating effect of mysticism and mystical art. 

The laws of psychic phenomena. 

Metapsychics and practical Mysticism. 

Emancipation through art, and the problem of art-creativeness. 

The spontaneous creative action of the subliminal mind. 

Revolutionist versus reformer. 

Re-creative evolution of life. 

The Trinity of Art, Philosophy and Religion. 

Duality in the evolution of life and nature. 

Education {hrough abuse. , 

Authority of Self. 

Man's conscious and unconscious conflicts. 

Psychology and the Art of Landscape gardening. 

Landscape Gardening and Architecture. 

Evolution of the Japanese high Art of Landscape Gardening. 

Illustrated. 
A Guide to Japanese Gardens and high Art. Illustrated. 

Fred Henkel 
Landscape Gardener, Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A. 



Creative Psychics 

The Art of Regeneration 




The Science and Art of the Religion 
of the Future; a Positive Science of 
Metapsychics and the Art Expression 
of Regenerative Mysticism; an Inter- 
pretation of the Emancipation of the Age 



BY 

FRED HENKEL 



Printed for the Author by the 

GOLDEN PRESS 

203 Tajo Building 

Los Angeles, California, U. S. A. 

1917 



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To all who foster Self-Reliance, 
Self-Development and Sex Un- 
foldment as fruitions of the pro- 
creative urge ; who see in Creative 
Generation, Re-generation and Art 
generation; who value the divine 
importance of developing the In- 
herent Creative and Procreative 
Powers to encompass the "Whole 
of Divinity ' ' : Humanity as well as 
Nature. 



Copyright 

FRED HENKEL 

203 Tajo Building 

Los Angeles, Cal. 

U. S. A. 

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Meditations and Reflections 



Mysticism — Creative Psychics — is caused through the sincere ef- 
fort to transcend the appearance of things and to recognize the causes 
as well as to find naturally automatically self-healing remedies. 



Our own insight into life and nature developes in the same degree 
as we exert ourselves to interpret and develop insight in others. 

As we try to understand others and help them to help themselves, 
to that extent do we redeem ourselves. 



Humanity alone can consciously develope supernatural power. 

Vigorous thinking about life's problems, the "fair" playing of the 
game of life, brings out the dynamic relationship between body, mind 
and soul, and self-critical unconscious cerebration, intuition and 
revelations. 

Mysticism is created through underlying feeling and aestheticism 
to the intellect, that is the beautiful to the useful, or what is the same : 
Eastern thought to Western knowledge. 

Mysticism implies character formation. 

Symbolism drags realism into art; mysticism shoves it out. 

All symbolical art is fictitious art and is the forerunner of all fic- 
tion. Truly relative art can only come through reaction against 
symbolical art. 



The modern efficiency man is a practical psychiatrist. 

Laughter, wit and humor as well as satire and swearing are reme- 
dies with mystical healing powers, which humanity had to create by 
necessity against the perversion through false reverence, fear and 
superstition. The dogmatist naturally lacks these self-healing quali- 
ties and also cannot appreciate them. 



CONTENTS OF PART ONE 



1. Preface and the problem at large ,. . . 5 

2. Religion, the evolution of perception of the Unseen. ... 6 

3. Psychology, what it is. What is psycho-logic ? What 

is the law that governs psychic phenomena ? 11 

4. Metapsy chics and creative mysticism, an introduction . . 16 

5. The Creative Force, Its Principle, and the principle 

of the emancipation of the age 41 

6. What is Mysticism, and What is a Mystic ? 54 

7. How to Produce the Mystic 67 



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PREFACE AND THE PROBLEM AT LARGE 

Metapsychics and creative Mysticism embody the Science 
and the Art of the religion of the future. The problem is 
presented in several series of essays interpreting the working 
principles which underly the principle of the emancipation 
of the age. This is an Emancipation through psychic Enlight- 
enment, that is: an emancipation through Aestheticism, ex- 
pounding the psychical and metapsychical aspect and an 
aesthetical view of evolution of life and creation : an aesthetical 
Weltanschauung. It deals with the perception of the supra- 
natural or supernatural Creative Force or God of Unity in ac- 
tion as Duality. It deals with such ancillary problems as the 
development of the human soul, with religion, philosophy and 
art of the past and the future, the development of Free Will, 
practical transcendentalism, creative mysticism, spontaneous 
creative action of the subliminal mind, organic fusion and 
growth, mental healing powers, practical psychology and oc- 
cultism and the laws of psychic phenomena in general. It 
aims in special at the interpretation of fourth dimensional 
arts, the psychology of a high art of landscape gardening and 
other higher dimensional vistas of art. As long as humanity 
in general, and the artists in particular cannot visualize the 
Creative Force or God in a high art with nature's beauty 
as well as with man, woman and child, so long is our concep- 
tion and vision of It partial and abnormal. It is the office of 
mystical high art to solve this problem. 

The whole problem of creative development of our psyche, 
that is of creative psychic or occult powers, depends on psychic 
exercise. We must cultivate, practice and exercise our psychic 
powers in order to develop and increase them, just as we must 
practice and exercise our intellectual and our physical endow- 
ments. We cannot expect to develop psyche without sincere 
effort. Creative psychic development, like creative physical 
development, and unlike intellectual development, depends on 
independent self development of indwelling, inborn individu- 



6 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

ality and originality. Creative psychic powers are, however, 
fundamentally transcendental powers, and we increase them in 
the proportion of the effort exercised to transcend their phe- 
nomena. It is not the result of a mechanical process of learn- 
ing through memorizing, but one of self developing and recip- 
rocal education through co-operation. The entire problem 
leads to the interpretation of the education of the future, an 
education through co-operation, and to the understanding of 
the beneficial influence which such development must exercise 
on the normal evolution of Feeling and Vision. The sources 
which create the power of Intuition, Revelation, and what 
science calls "spontaneous creative action of the subliminal 
mind": to the development of creative mystical or psychic 
powers in general, and the causes which necessitate their higher 
development, are manifold but have much in common if we 
proceed to transcend them. They are dealt with in another 
series of essays which represent various views of the inex- 
haustible solution of one and the same riddle of life and 
creation which presents and reveals itself to every human be- 
ing, in diverse ways. As all positive sciences have come out 
of reaction against abstract or alchemistic sciences and thus 
through a revolution, it must be evident that a positive science 
of religion and a positive high art must follow the abstract 
symbolical development of the past. 



II 

RELIGION THE EVOLUTION OF PERCEPTION 

OF THE UNSEEN 

Metapsychics or meta-psychology is the science of the Un- 
seen Creative Force just as psychics or psychology is the science 
of the indwelling unseen creative force of the human mind. Re- 
ligion of the future is a science and an art dealing with evolution 
of perception of the Unseen. It is therefore with the evolution 
of high or religious art expression with which the religion of the 



EVOLUTION OP PERCEPTION OF THE UNSEEN 7 

future is concerned. It recognizes thus only a positive science 
and a positive art of emancipation of vision, and has a positive 
psychic aim. It recognizes that all humanity needs is to be re- 
lieved from subnormal or psycho-pathological vision in order to 
see truth for itself afresh each day. This demands that every 
age evolves a higher inward vision of truth. As truth is the 
emancipating power, and as its vision is the principal thing it 
must be evident that the whole problem hinges on the evolution 
of high art and Art Consciousness. 

Religion cannot evolve unless high art evolves. Religion, 
as the term is herein used, is that Reliance that all sentient 
beings feel towards forces and powers that transcend the unde- 
veloped faculties of the mind. 

As the mind develops by experience from its vague and 
crude reliance, it seeks and attains positive justification in scien- 
tific supports and transcendental or aesthetical gratifications. 

Every advance in science opens wider reaches for the devel- 
opment of the Art urge. Religion evolves as high Art evolves. 
It has not evolved otherwise. It cannot evolve otherwise. 

Religion is thus fundamentally an Art Problem, and the re- 
ligion of the future creates a higher Art Consciousness, which 
is identical with God Consciousness. The religious instinct in 
humanity is thus the Visionistic Instinct : the indwelling desire 
to vision the Unknown and Unseen workings of the Creative 
Force or God ; it is the inherent desire of Feeling and Express- 
ing Feeling in acts and in art manifestation. 

The religion of the future is a constructive Science of Feeling 
and regards spiritual powers as indwelling psychic powers. It 
propounds principles which increase these fundamentally occult 
and mystical powers. It thus propounds principles which 
govern the development of an Occult or Mystical high art, whilst 
the religion of the past cultivates only a symbolic high art. It 
recognizes that normal psychic development can only be ob- 
tained through knowing oneself, as otherwise the vision is de- 
formed, which results in projection of our pathological 
self into our vision of the Creative Force or God. As the 
Creative Force in action is dual it must be evident that our 
vision of both aspects must be distorted and misleading. The 
principles underlying mystical high art expression are the 



8 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

principles underlying creation itself. Religious consciousness — 
God consciousness, means art consciousness : A purified per- 
ception of the Unseen. We look at religion solely from the 
point of view of art and thus have to purify and increase vision 
and imagination of the Unseen. The principles underlying the 
formation of normal vision and imagination, and therefore of 
true art, are the principles of evolution and growth. 

The past has created only a partial and subnormal, that is, 
psycho-pathological percept of the Unseen. Mysticism repre- 
sents a higher normal vision which must be created through 
reaction against subnormal vision, a process which revolution- 
izes the individual and creates a higher consciousness. 

The evolution of religion and art of the past is an evolution 
of subnormal vision. Mysticism brings a vision which is free 
from the psycho-pathological element of subnormal vision, 
which latter is created through fear of the Unseen. Reaction 
against Fear is one of the principal factors in the evolution of 
mysticism. 

Subnormal vision through fear of the Unseen has led to sup- 
pression of the knowing and developing of Self. It has nat- 
urally led to suppression of Truth, and suppression of psychical 
and occult creative powers of Self, with perversion of spiritu- 
ality and spirit-life in general as a result. It has led to mis- 
understanding between individuals, nations and races, and to 
the neglect to draw from collective experiences of nations and 
races their cogent lessons, as well as from individual life-ex- 
periences. It has led from tragedy to tragedy until history 
especially the historical aspects of religion, represents a dis- 
torted apprehension of the Unseen. It has led to the suppres- 
sion of the best and to the survival of the brute, to the rule 
of the stale, the old and the dead, to a cult of the possessive 
instinct and of its substitution for truth. It has led to a cult of 
second hand knowledge, instead of a cult of life experiences and 
consecration of soul in order to understand the divine and 
sublime inner workings of one 's own life and creativeness. 

In short subnormal vision has led to an abnormal and per- 
sonal apperception of the Unseen with all the shortcomings of 
the subnormal vision of the individual. A higher vision and 
higher visionary powers can only come through self-knowledge 



EVOLUTION OF PERCEPTION OP THE UNSEEN 9 

and from a positive science with the collation of life experiences 
of the whole of the human race, which creates a higher normal 
consciousness of the Unseen. 

The religion of the future deals scientifically with Principles 
of the Unseen, and with the principles which lead to a true 
vision of it. It regards the Unseen as an impersonal creative 
principle inherent, inborne and active in all life and creation. 
It visions the principle back of the Creative Force in all created 
objects, and naturally expresses it in all art-expressions in the 
same measure as it increases its vision. It sees Good in all 
created objects and recognizes all shortcomings as a necessary 
means to a higher evolution. It destroys all cult with evil, and 
deals with it scientifically, taking the sting and its poisoning 
property out of it. 

The problem of perception of the Unseen implies a positive 
scientific education in principles which govern creation, and the 
Creative Force as a principle of unity in action as duality with 
no evil in it. It recognizes that there is nothing wrong with 
life, creation and creator except our apperception of it, which 
naturally implies that our knowledge and conceptions are im- 
perfect and misleading. It implies further that we improve 
our vision automatically in the same measure as we improve our 
knowledge and conceptions of creative processes, and that our 
art expressions must increase automatically in the same degree. 

A positive science of perception of the Unseen takes an un- 
prejudiced, impartial and impersonal view of creator, creation 
and all creative processes, just as any other positive science is 
expected to practice although it calls for the development of 
higher means of cognition. It presents objectively and intel- 
lectually the aspect of the dual working forces of God in action 
so that such knowledge can also form and inform the sub- 
liminal or spiritual self of man as correctly as possible in order 
that the latter may give true expression of it. Like all positive 
sciences it will in time accumulate much second hand knowledge 
with extracts and " canned goods" as the result, but it will 
perpetuate the original scientific intent to induce and educate 
the student to scientific practice and experiment such as alone 
can lead to proper life experiences and forming and informing 



10 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

individual and original vision. This will reciprocally also im- 
prove the individual's art consciousness and art expression. 

Intellectual knowledge and objective perception have been 
increased and purified in the same measure as the human vision 
of the Unseen has been purified. Archaic vision of the Unseen 
distinguishes itself through its frightfulness which early re- 
ligious art implies. This terroristic expression has diminished 
in the course of evolution of art: the artistic striving towards 
more harmonious expressions of the Unseen. This upward 
process of evolution of vision must naturally continue and 
the art expressions must become in time more and more true to 
the Universal Creative Force itself, and must lose all expression 
of fear. Religion must naturally also lose its perverting aspect 
as a cult of evil, which it has inherited from its infantile past. 

Religion, and its expression in art form, was from its begin- 
ning a devil-cult, a cult of fear and superstition, which aspect 
must be obliterated in time. The old religion must destroy itself 
and a cult without fear and devil must take its place. The 
archaic survivals of religion and its derivative art make nat- 
urally for propagation of subnormal vision, morbid ecstasy, 
fanaticism and the reversion to sexual infantilism, as psychology 
has it, to perversion of psyche in general. 

The problem of evolution of perception is therefore the prob- 
lem of emancipation of humanity from a belief in evil. It has a 
dual aspect by necessity. It deals scientifically with the causes 
of evil through improving our intellect and knowledge, besides 
teaching principles which underly the formation of true vision 
and art creativeness. The latter implies the forming and in- 
forming of the psyche or subliminal Self. Both are interde- 
pendent by necessity and together lead to the emancipation of 
humanity. 



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PSYCHOLOGY— WHAT IT IS. 

WHAT IS PSYCHO-LOGIC? 

WHAT IS THE LAW THAT GOVERNS 

PSYCHIC PHENOMENA? 

The laws of psychic phenomena imply that every age and 
every individual has to produce its own remedies automatically 
and increases higher creative and augmented mental healing 
powers to the extent that it creates the need for them. This is 
the natural product of the higher consciousness which the age 
demands from the individual as well as from the race in general. 
The individual as well as the race must develop higher con- 
sciousness in order to advance. 

Psychology is a positive science of cognizing and developing 
the Unknown and Unseen Subliminal Creative Powers in hu- 
manity. It is a positive science of the Greater Self in man, lead- 
ing to a positive science of the greater self of the Cosmos and to 
Cosmic Consciousness. This latter object is the task of meta- 
psychics. Both deal with the Force that binds, unites, harmon- 
izes and elevates. 

We cannot understand nor interpret Life and the Cosmos 
with the intellect alone, but the latter must be assisted by Feel- 
ing into life and nature. For that purpose we have to develop 
our Psyche or Feeling Self. Feeling into life and nature 
teaches us that all life is evolved out of reaction against waste, 
which waste must naturally accompany every creative process. 
It teaches us also that evolution of life is an evolution of 
Psyche or soul, which is evolved through the sincere attempt 
and effort to compensate for waste. The greater the waste which 
an age produces the higher it develops its psyche in order to 
transmute waste into creative profit. 

Our age is an age of highest creativeness, inventiveness and 
productiveness and also accompanied by the greatest prodigal- 
ity of waste. It creates and demands automatically the highest 



12 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

development of psychic powers. Our age has therefore devel- 
oped a positive science called psychology which is the automatic 
outcome of our psycho-pathological development caused by our 
long continued cult of the male or possessive instinct. It has 
been created out of Unconscious Reaction against extreme 
pathological development of our Psyche and through the neglect 
of our educators to develop a higher consciousness in the indi- 
vidual and in the race in general. 

What is therefore the nature and what are the principles of 
a positive science to increase our consciousness and our psychic 
creative powers ? must be asked ; and on what principles is its 
logic based? Such principles must naturally be psycho-logical 
and express through a well formed and well informed Feeling 
into Life and nature. 

Psyche like psycho-logic is naturally created purest and 
strongest through transcending our own life experiences which 
form and inform feeling. It is therefore through the increase 
of such feeling that we can become conscious of higher cre- 
ative processes and develop that kind of logic through which we 
can present and prove the truth of the conclusions and validity 
of the principles which need to be applied to the higher devel- 
opment of creative psychic powers, and of the turning of waste 
into creative profit. The reasoning process must be based on 
our life experiences and the conclusions must coincide with the 
collective experiences of races and nations which collaterate 
such experiences and alone can form and inform feeling aright. 

Principles which form and inform feeling must be of psychic 
enlightening nature, and it is therefore with principles which 
enlighten our psychic with which psycho-logical development is 
concerned first of all, and which naturally enlighten our intel- 
lect also, and thus obliterate inner conflicts at the same time. 
This science has naturally two sides : a preventive and a curative 
or re-creative side. All conflicts naturally produce increased 
waste, and it is with the causes of waste and the transcending 
of conflicts with which mysticism is principally concerned. We 
form and inform our feeling best by transcending conflicts 
which accompany life experiences. The development of creative 
psychic powers is therefore forcefully affected by those con- 
flicts between human factors which are at the root of all exces- 



WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGIC? 13 

sive waste. For it is conflict that increases sensitiveness — that 
is feeling, — and this increased sensitiveness is accompanied by 
the greater power to react against even the slightest traces of 
abnormal occurrences and leads to detection of the causes and 
agents. 

The principles which can develop creative psychic powers 
demonstrate how every age produces its highest re-creative and 
mental healing powers out of reaction against pathological 
development ; our age has created the need for it and produces 
the remedy automatically in the most sensitive and inspired 
minds. This is nature 's own secret. It represents the nature of 
the Creative Force itself, the principles of which must also 
govern us but which can only be recognized and developed 
through own inner effort to create a higher consciousness and 
a higher common sense. Our age has produced a higher com- 
mon sense by necessity through its increased wastefulness. Our 
age obeys the laws of psychic phenomena, the laws that every 
perverse and abnormal development must create its own natural 
remedy, which is of a mystical nature. We cannot define it ex- 
cept through the recognition of principles which lead to its 
development. Like all true products of the age it meets the de- 
mand of that age. It is developed because there is need for it. 
It is not digged from the stone graves in the pyramids nor from 
the classical wisdom of ancient Greece, although all collective 
experiences increase our consciousness to a large degree. The 
intrinsic development of races is naturally less enlightening 
than the extrinsic values which they have created. Their col- 
lective experiences, the causes of their doom and their perishing 
interests us much more than their classical perfection which led 
up to their decline and extirpation. We learn wisdom from 
tragedies of nations, just as we learn from our own and other 
people's life experiences. We meet varied conditions today, 
and our life experiences must lead to as varied revelations. We 
cannot repeat eternally the old tragedies, nor can we count upon 
the duplication and repetition of the individual's experiences, 
because the experiences of each life are unique ; but all can learn 
from conclusions drawn by others if they conform to the col- 
lective experiences of races and nations and other individuals. 

Ours is a commercial age which has its roots in Babylonian 



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culture. We need rather Solomonic wisdom and the sagacity of 
the fakir who tries to transcend the foolishness of humanity. 
What we need is more like the sublime power of the ' ' detective ' ' 
spirit which the age has created outi of reaction against its 
criminality. Psycho-logic is a higher kind of detective logic 
which transcends and recognizes both the causes and defects. 
Our age has produced highest inventiveness and produces nat- 
urally the highest " detectiveness. " The latter is as much a 
creative achievement as the former and is caused through the 
increase of the very same urge within us. Detectiveness repre- 
sents also therefor an increase of creative psychic power. In- 
ventiveness meets as much the agressiveness of brute forces as 
detectiveness. We are emerging out of an age where possession 
and might ruled over right, and intellect over psyche. We have 
developed higher consciousness and higher creative psychic 
powers out - of reaction against brutishness and intellectual 
aggressiveness. We have come to cognize the light within us 
and develop it automatically to get and keep us out of mental 
and bodily slavery. We are of an age which wants to get free 
by all means. We have set our hearts to it and we shall succeed. 
We live in an age which demands plain truth, and it gets it. It 
is not to be satisfied with less. The logic of the true psychologist 
is like the logic of the detective, somewhat obscure to the con- 
ventionally educated, because of the lack of the former to com- 
ply with the style of conventional literature of so-called artistic 
writing ; but he has his own way of tracing as well as expressing 
truth. He does not strive after an expression in artistic style, 
but rather after a plain scientific one. It must seem quite 
natural that the product of psychical development must differ 
from the intellectual product, and that the elegant is less 
obvious than the aims at which it strives. Our art and style 
will naturally change as much as our modes of education and 
our conceptions of authority change. There must be some- 
thing of the Unknown and the Unseen in all expressions which 
have come out of psychic development, because it is arrived at 
through Feeling, and must be transcended and felt to become 
an experience and a power. It must arouse the sensitiveness 
and the "sense of reaction" which it demands for its under- 



WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGIC? 15 

standing. This is what the development of creative psychic or 
creative mystical powers implies. 

It means greater independence and freedom of self-exertion 
and self-expression. We enter an age which develops mystical 
creative powers out of reaction against mental and bodily age- 
old slavery and exploitation. It means the end of a culture 
which limits the development of mankind. 

Our age recognizes the subliminal self, the God Within, 
which rests on the harmonious development of the intellectual 
and feeling self alike, a true and happy conjunction which 
leads to higher or supernatural organic fusion and growth, 
which is of mystical nature. We emerge out of an age of 
symbol worship, which also makes us perfect to deduce the 
Unknown from the Known through a logic of psychic nature. 

Such detective logic distinguishes itself from intellectual 
reasoning from theories of the scholarly educated in that it ar- 
rives at the truth through a line of intuitive flashes of insight, 
which come from a well enlightened Psyche without losing 
contact with Reality. It distinguishes itself from the brilliant 
but defective deductive reasoning of the hypnotized person and 
the even short-circuited logic of the religionist and theologian 
in that it is accomplished through the aid of powerful and en- 
lightened intellect, which feat is possible only to a mind that 
has enlightened itself by first hand experiences and revela- 
tions. It is caused by the cleared vision of subliminal powers. 
It is the result of a cleared brain-focus of vision which leads to 
a higher consciousness than the non-creative conventionally 
educated can acquire. It is for this reason that our most in- 
spired minds evolve outside of conventional education through 
self development, and who also have to revolutionize our educa- 
tional methods and thus advance humanity. All progress of 
humanity comes from outside of conventional circles and their 
adulterated modes of expression. 

A positive science of psychics must naturally grow into a 
science of metapsychics — that is into a science which deals with 
higher dimensional realms, which interprets the laws and prin- 
ciples of nature on a higher plane of expression, that is in 
metapsychical art. Metapsychics deals, therefore, more with 
the higher development of the supernatural, which demands 



16 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

still higher critical and transcending powers. In its higher 
phases psychics is therefore applied to all the causes which de- 
grade humanity. It overcomes all limitations placed on the 
subliminal power through the restriction of perverted intellect 
and knowledge. This is naturally also a normal and inborn 
faculty of humanity, but demands common sense and vision 
of a still higher order, which is suppressed and perverted by 
the limitations placed on it through the teachings of age-old 
superstition. It too rises out of the masses, — we do not know 
whence it comes. It grows in many inspired minds until it 
finds expression through one of them, — one who transcends 
more clearly the principles which govern its development. 
Every age must thus emancipate itself. 

The development of creative psychic powers is today a 
necessity. Without it we cannot compete against those that 
cultivate it/ Nor can we meet the competition of brute 
force without higher psychic powers. Its need is caused by the 
great inventiveness of the age, and it is the inventor to whom 
we owe thanks for our progress, though we do not sufficiently 
recognize his services which are achieved through indefatigable 
perseverance in spite of all obstacles placed in his way through 
greed. The inventor is the mystic of our age. He is a creative 
mystic by necessity, and the age which we are going to enter is 
the Age of Creative Mysticism or mystical Creativeness. The 
inventors are the emancipators of humanity, but they are 
inspired by the artists. 



IV 
METAPSYCHICS AND CBEATIVE MYSTICISM 

Metapsychics or meta-psychology is the scientific relation- 
ing of the Unseen Creative Force just as psychics or psychology 
is the science of the human mind or the indwelling Creative 
Force. 

Creative mysticism is today the paramount educational 
problem, and all the foremost educators expound principles 



METAPSYCHICS 17 

of it with the intent to evolve the Greater Self and a Greater 
Humanity. All such separate efforts aim at the development 
of Creative Psychic Powers of Spontaneous Creative Action 
of the Subliminal Mind and Organic Growth which all depend 
on Organic Fusion. The principles which govern organic 
fusion and growth govern the whole universe including the 
evolution of life, spirituality and art. These separate efforts 
represent steps towards a Positive Science of Sciences which 
is in the making, and it is my intention to introduce the reader 
into the fundamental principles of the religion of the future and 
its art expression of Metapsychics and Re-creative or Mystical 
Art. These outstanding educational principles of the present 
day aim at evoking and cultivating the psychic mental power 
in order to increase Creative Ability, and they serve to develop 
the subjective plane of our existence along with the intellectual 
and physical Self. Education through Play and Re-Creative 
Recreation, Vocational Training, education through Concentra- 
tion on Creative Principles and through Self Suggestion, Mind 
building through development of Mind Power, Mental Healing 
and the development of Self Reliance in order to overcome fear 
and to develop Personal Magnetism, are only a few of the most 
prominent features of the development of mystical creative 
activity and of higher creativeness in general; of Mystical 
Awareness of the Mind and of the Development of the Greater 
Self in Humanity. 

The evolution of metapsychics and creative mysticism may 
be compared to that of algebra, and demands and cre- 
ates a distinct line of logic and computation of differ- 
ent exponents, expressions and characters. It also makes 
use of terms of other sciences in order to express itself 
more fully. There exists a certain analogy and interde- 
pendence between all the different products of mental activity 
just as between various physical activities and physical and 
mental activities. Quite naturally all our activity and creative- 
ness are dependent and interdependent on other and cosmic 
activity and creativeness. We cannot produce anything which 
is not both inside and outside of us. All increase of our activ- 
ity and creativeness must naturally lead to a Higher Conscious- 
ness and in the end to Cosmic Consciousness. Thus everything 



18 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

in the universe is interdependent on the other and on the 
Whole, and everything is relative to the Whole. All is relative 
only, but the planes of that relativeness may he either below the 
normal and natural, or they may be above it and are, to that 
extent supernatural — that is higher dimensional. All acts 
and expressions are thus either related to one or the other of 
these planes with innumerable shades between, because they 
are fundamentally the product of all our creativeness and 
activity. The more they are related to the psychic plane the 
higher is their aim. 

Metapsy chics and Creative Mysticism are as much the out- 
come of the evolution of mathematics and physics as of the 
revulsion from superstitious religion. Metaphysics is as much 
a universal science of physics and a material interpretation 
of the universe as metapsychics strives for a universal 
psychic interpretation of the universe, or Universal Psychics. 
Religion, as we know it, is an arrested development as com- 
pared with its twin brother metaphysics, and has not yet 
reached the status of a positive science of psychics, which meta- 
psychics is destined to achieve. There is both a parallel and a 
distinction between metapsychics and religion. The former 
aims directly at an understanding of the Cause, the latter 
rather at the contemplation of the Effect. Metapsychics, the 
science of the religion of the future, aims at both the under- 
standing of the Cause and the Effect. It is a free and posi- 
tive science and teaches principles which govern mystical cre- 
ative processes. It attains and radiates a vision of the Cre- 
ative Force itself, or of God as religion calls the Cause. The 
religion of the future rests on a positive science of the Creative 
Force and teaches principles of higher creativeness which are 
revealed through all positive sciences as well as through 
contemporaneous study and experiment in creative processes. 
It is a positive Science of Sciences, but it is not a conglomerate. 
Such science of sciences is an Organic Fusion or a living 
Growth, and its development brings with it the understanding 
of Organic Fusion and Growth, which represents the actual 
Workings of the Creative Force or God. 

It is therefore essentially with Organic Fusion and Growth 
with which the religion of the future is concerned, which 



MBTAPSYCHICS 19 

processes are at the root of all human creativeness, productive- 
ness and reproductive power, just as these constitute the roots 
of all creation and evolution of the world at large. The process 
of organic fusion and growth is mystical — or higher dimen- 
sional and of Psychical Nature, and its understanding depends 
on the development of creative psychic or constructive occult 
powers. This mystical process is reciprocal, which means that 
we develop along with the understanding of it our own psychic 
creativeness at the same time and automatically. 

All higher creativeness is, like life and creation, the result 
of the inherent mystical power of the Creative Force itself to 
Arouse Latent Energies and Hidden Talents — to stimulate and 
increase Radiant Energy through mystical overcoming of Fric- 
tion and Gravity, which thus makes organic fusion, gemma- 
tion and growth possible. All creative activity is radiant 
activity and produces a mystical effect just as it has a mystical 
origin. We may best compare it to the mystical creativeness 
of the inventive genius, who, with the increase of insight, ex- 
periment and reflex, and through concentrating on creative 
processes, increases his own creativeness. Or we may compare 
it to the mystical inquisitive and detective spirit of the cre- 
ative artist who transcends the actuality of existence and the 
past, that is "what was," and creates a vision of the future 
and "what might be." 

It is therefore essentially the Detective and Inquisitive In- 
ventive and Artistic Genius of the race which is representative 
of the Creative Force, and which has advanced humanity step 
by step automatically and produced human evolution. While 
the inventor concentrates more on the advancement of the 
Utilitarian side of life we find the artist concentrating more 
on the Aesthetic aspects of life and creation. The acts and 
thoughts of both are governed by principles which are most 
truly relative to the principles which govern the Creative Force 
in Action in its dual aspect, because both have increased their 
own creative psychic power through Inner Effort. They are 
not mere imitators but creators. The result is an acquiring of 
properties and character which create, attract and direct 
energy through creating higher energy, which is also the Po- 
tential of the Creative Force itself. 



20 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

Humanity in its course of evolution increases the potential 
energy of the universe through creating energy within the 
individual as well as through attracting it from external 
factors. It does that automatically in the measure of discovery 
of its Relationship with Outside Energy as well as with the In- 
crease of the Cognizance of its Inner Working Processes 
which increases its Consciousness. The evolution of humanity 
depends on its increase of consciousness, which increase is 
caused through the increase of Awareness as to its relationship 
and interdependence with other created objects. In other 
words: all real progress is caused by the Increase of Aware- 
ness of the Relationship of each phase of Being to every Man- 
ifestation of Life, Matter and Cosmos. It is thus Cosmic 
Consciousness that humanity strives for consciously and un- 
consciously. 

Along with the evolution and revolution of every religion 
has been produced and proclaimed one or the other of these 
Relationships only, which is represented in the emancipating 
principle of such religion. Through that principle it gets its 
Vision of the Creative Force, which vision is quite naturally a 
partial percept of the Creative Force or God. The true evolu- 
tion of every religion depends necessarily on the evolution of 
the emancipating principle and thus on discarding denatured 
and anti-natural pseudo-principles which made emancipation 
necessary. An Emancipation implies the revolution of Re- 
ligion. Broader vision and higher awareness of relationship 
can only come through the intercourse of different religions: 
with Interchange of their emancipating principles. 

The discovery and evolution of every emancipating principle 
is caused by and results in higher creative psychic powers. Its 
merit rests on its power of forming and Informing our Psyche 
on true creative principles, and results therefore in an increase 
of our supranatural or mystical productiveness, creativeness, 
inventiveness and art expression, because it advances our own 
creative power nearer the divine stage of the Creative Force 
itself. 

The problem of the religion of the future is: to stimulate 
creative psychic activity, in order that it may assist in pro- 
moting a harmonious and well balanced development of the 



METAPSYCHICS 21 

mental and psychical powers of the awakened individual. 
This is what occult creativeness means — to cultivate the 
mystical power of the psyche to produce that magnetic force 
which is necessary to produce a higher voltage of energy, and 
overcome the gravity and attrition of the intellect. This is 
a parallel process corresponding to the electric current under 
the influence of the magnetic force which is otherwise subject 
to gravity. Our inventors produce, demonstrate and elucidate 
on the material plane what we neglect to develop on the psychic 
or spiritual plane. The inventions then in turn bring the higher 
cognizance of our own inner sublime workings. Our inventors 
did not invent electricity but have harnessed it, and humanity 
has to learn that it can similarly harness its own higher energy 
and make it productive instead of letting it go to waste, de- 
stroying the best within us. That is what inventors and artists 
strive for both objectively and subjectively. The inventor 
creates for the utilitarian plane as the artist creates for the 
aesthetic or spiritual plane through developing of increasing 
psychic power. Both create through reducing friction and 
gravity within themselves and thus reducing friction between 
individuals. They make humanity more efficiently creative 
and reduce their molecular weight. Our bodily molecular 
weight has decreased in the same measure as our art and in- 
ventions have increased. A few hundred years ago our fore- 
fathers could hardly swim, and bathing was considered abnor- 
mal. With the further increase of psychical development no- 
body will drown under ordinary conditions. 

It follows that higher creativeness is evolved through re- 
duction of friction and gravity within and without the individ- 
ual. All occult processes demonstrate the same fact, but what 
we are used to call occult processes generally avoid friction 
more or less altogether. They work on the psychic plane 
alone. All higher creativeness is occult and! all demonstrate 
the fact of a separate psychic plane within the individual, just 
as they demonstrate the duality of the creative force in action. 
The scholarly educated, mechanically cultured person naturally 
creates only products which increase friction and gravity 
evolving clashing concepts, contradictions and confusion, be- 
cause such culture promotes lethargy, anomaly of the psyche 



22 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

and subnormal psychic activity. The more of such adulterated 
knowledge an age produces, and propagates from its. inher- 
itance of the past the stronger is the natural reaction of 
psychically creative minds. Invention and art increase at the 
same rate in order to overcome the enhanced friction and grav- 
ity which the merely intellectual promulges. The demand for a 
spiritual revolution and a revolution of all culture and civiliza- 
tion which this misinformed age has perpetuated from the past 
becomes constantly more insistent. This process manifests 
itself today in its most pronounced form. The failure of our 
intellectual and so-called spiritual leadership is best demon- 
strated in the present day upheaval. We have to convince the 
conventionally educated that they are a nuisance and a menace, 
a thorn in our flesh. Higher creativeness and Spirituality in 
general depend on the development of creative psychic power 
through own inner effort, and the necessary revolution can be 
accomplished only through reaction against our perverted 
teaching and educating which suppresses it. The coming 
peace between nations will mark the beginning of still more 
revolutionary upheavals within the nations unless we can con- 
vince our educators that they are fundamentally mistaken and 
fallaciously informed. Democracy will be a complete failure 
so long as we do not revolutionize our entire educational 
machineries including our religions. These present survivals 
from a leisurely aristocracy, the rule of the stale, the palsied, 
the withered and the dead. The outworn must give way to 
the virile, the inspired unselfish youth of the age and to the 
blithesome feminine. The old sacrifice the young for their mis- 
takes, and the most unselfish are destroyed that the sovereignity 
of caste and greed may be upheld as long as their tatters will 
still bear patching. The outstanding remissness of our super- 
ficial educators consists of their lack of understanding that 
ultimate things cannot be perceived except through the de- 
veloped Psyche. This alone can produce the necessary self- 
reliance and self-confidence which obliterates abnormal vision, 
and leads to a revolution of vision and imagination. It leads 
to the necessary power of concentration on truly evolutionary 
processes and selfwill of a higher order. It brings quite nat- 
urally a better understanding of all truly creative processes, 



MBTAPSYCHICS 23 

and creative activity in general as well as a higher esteem for 
the product of purposeful industry. Whatever does not pro- 
duce absorbs energy and increases friction and gravity. Futile 
effort withholds from the creative faculty its rightful share 
in the valuation of service. Abstinence from labour cannot 
recreate subnormal (and therefore abnormal) vision of the 
Creative Force and creative processes in general. Such ab- 
stention perpetuates the credulity that places reliance upon 
reactionary forces. It is therefore quite logical that the teach- 
ings of those whose livelihood and comfort are dependent on 
the creativeness of others have fallen into utter disrepute as the 
general creativeness has increased. This same increased cre- 
ativeness has augmented the conception of the Creative Force 
amongst the producing class far beyond the conception of the 
non-producing minority. Creativeness alone can increase the 
Creative Force within: the psychic power, and it is with the 
advance of this plane that our age is especially concerned, be- 
cause this has been neglected and perverted through the long 
continued and onesided development of the intellectual or ma- 
terial plane. 

It is with a cult of the psychic plane that the religion of the 
future is concerned, and which brings with it also a competent 
valuation of the intellectual plane. It is a well recognized fact 
that the consciousness of the human personality consists of two 
planes: the intellectual or material plane and the psychic or 
spiritual plane, and we have to consider that the psychic plane 
is the higher dimensional, occult or mystical plane. It repre- 
sents the supranatural or subliminal workings of the Creative 
Force within us. All life is composed of a multitude of con- 
sciousnesses, all of them of dual nature. All represent the Cre- 
ative Force in Action, just like our entire organism. We are 
able to develop both planes to a higher status, and thus in- 
crease our consciousness and awareness as well as our creative- 
ness. Both planes are interdependent, one is just a plane higher 
and represents the Supranatural or subliminal within us. The 
neglect of its development leads to perversion of it, and it be- 
comes abnormal, immoral. As this plane influences all our acts 
and thoughts as well as our vision and art creativeness it must 
be evident that the neglect of it is anti-natural, leading to acts 



24 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

and art expression which do not conform to the Creative Force. 

It is upon a positive science of the Creative Force in action 
that the religion of the future will find its base. This science 
is metapsychics, a higher science of psychics which demands 
an indigenous computation and logic and as it evolves it will 
develop higher representative exponents and characters, that 
is, higher art expressions just as higher mathematics created 
its own exponents and nomenclature in order to simplify its 
problems and facilitate their solutions. Mathematical logic 
has created algebraic signs or symbols not unlike those of re- 
ligious logic, but psychology creates characters of quite a dif- 
ferent order. There is a natural interrelationship between all 
these developments which we have to transcend in order to 
understand and develop the Subliminal within. Metapsychics 
leads to a higher conception of what religion seeks to in- 
terpret, and is a science which deals as much with the increas- 
ing vortex of a becoming sun as it deals with the development 
of human character. It deals as much with the dual conscious- 
ness of the atom as it deals with mystical organic growth and 
symbiogenetic evolution of life. It views life and creation from 
every aspect, and perceives that the vortex of an embryonic 
sun evolves through an organic fusion of contradistinguished 
entities which thus develop the personality of matter, or its 
Gravity as it is commonly called. It recognizes that life evolves 
out of matter as the Flame of Matter through a decrease of 
friction and gravity. 

The entities or planes having become higher consciousnesses 
are still contradistinguished, but their harmonious produce is 
the individuated entity and its inherent and distinct char- 
acter. 

The evolution of metapsychics and mysticism in the further 
development of evolution of the human mind must become clear 
when we consider the difference between religious subnormal 
symbolism and mathematical scientific symbolism, and the dif- 
ference of religious and mathematical logic. The latter is an 
inexorable consequence of the former and represents in itself 
a reaction against subnormal logic and symbol worship, a step 
from the subnormal plane of vision to a material plane. Meta- 
psychics and mysticism represent a step toward the higher 



METAPSTCHICS 25 

normal, with the normal development of the Psyche as a result. 
Humanity has evolved on the way from religion over meta- 
physics to metapsychics or higher dimensional psychics, and 
thus from religious symbolism over mathematical and scientific 
symbolism to creative mysticism. The intermediary step was 
made possible only through the development of the Greek 
cosmological view of life and creation. Mysticism is, funda- 
mentally speaking, a supranatural plane of symbolism. Sym- 
bolism evolved along with superstition and is the product of 
fear of the Unknown. Scientific symbolism is a natural anti- 
dote against religious symbolism which humanity has created 
automatically asf a mental remedy. Mysticism is simply the 
further product of further reaction against subnormal vision 
of the Creative Force. It represents the revolutionary and re- 
generative processes that find spontaneous expression on a 
higher plane of consciousness. Religious symbolism represents 
a retrogression below the material plane, whilst the symbols of 
mathematics are intellectual or material. The evolution of the 
human mind cannot halt either on a subnormal nor on an in- 
tellectual plane. It will inevitably reach higher. We can un- 
derstand the process of such evolution much better if we review 
the evolution of the art of the past and consider that of the 
future. High art of the past started with symbolism and ar- 
rived at realism which is induced by the realistic scientific 
spirit of the age. From there it will automatically pass with 
the advance of psychic development to mystical art expres- 
sion. Every phase in the development of art is the product of 
the times to a large extent. It ought to be more. It ought to be 
the leading and regenerating spirit of the times. It ought not 
only to mirror the times but ought to lead it to a higher plane 
of culture and civilization. In other words: every age ought 
to produce a higher art with a higher vision of the Unseen. 
It is therefore with the high or religious art with which the 
science of the religion is concerned first of all. 

This implies the increase of creative psychic powers in gen- 
eral, through the processes of forming and informing Psyche 
which lead to increase of Vision. It recognizes that all effort 
spent in clearing vision leads automatically to higher psychic 
powers. It believes that Enlightenment of mental processes 



26 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

has a creative effect just as it has an automatically Physical and 
Mental healing effect. It recognizes that Interpretations of 
relationship are of highest enlightening order. It interprets 
all that humanity has created in its proper relationship, and 
thus also how metapsy chics must naturally evolve from religion 
over metaphysics. It sees that metaphysics is the direct out- 
come of a cosmological religion, and thus more universal than 
religion. 

Metapsychics, analogous to higher mathematics, makes use 
of certain known quantities in order to understand and inter- 
pret the Unknown and Unseen, and it develops thus along with 
the increase of collective experiences a higher degree of logical 
understanding which is of psychological nature, just as it de- 
velops automatically the psychic urge within. The evolution 
of the human mind is an evolution of logic. Humanity has 
passed in the course of evolution from an a-logical state of 
reasoning to an illogical and irrational state, and is now pro- 
ceeding from a rational logic to psycho-logic. 

As regards the various modes through which the different 
sciences including religion try to solve the mystery of the Un- 
known quantity it must be evident that metapsychics differs in 
that its aim is direct and affirmative and represents positive 
psychics. Metapsychics, religion and metaphysics strive at 
understanding and interpreting the same Unknown quantity 
through different modes, exponents and characters which de- 
mand a certain amount of visualizing power in order to use 
these exponents and characters. Metaphysics and religion 
make use of symbols whilst metapsychics makes use of prin- 
ciples which govern mystical expressions. We best regard 
metapsychics as the science of the religion of the future and 
mysticism as the base of its art expression, just as religion of 
the past is best regarded as the science, and symbolism the art 
derived from epochal religion. We must regard all religious 
mysticism of the past as art expression, whilst the teaching of 
its principles has been the science. These differences become 
more clear coincident with the evolution of Creative Mysti- 
cism. 

The Religion of the Future : its Science and its Art, develope 
together like the religion of the past and its symbolic art de- 



METAPSYCHICS 27 

veloped alongside of each other; or mathematics, algebra and 
metaphysics. The religion of the future is therefore accom- 
panied by its own art expression which it creates. All we can 
do today is to proclaim and interpret some of the principles 
which govern it, and which can lead to further development 
of that science and art. The principles which govern a re- 
ligion and its art must necessarily be the same. In the course 
of human evolution all such principles must the more and more 
accord with each other and thus the more conform with the 
Creative Force itself, and the same principles which govern 
our religion and art must also govern our life. This has always 
been the aim of all forward striving minds, but it can only be 
obtained and the wish fulfilled through a positive Universal 
Religion governed by Universal Principles. 

As the religious instinct is based on the inherent desire of 
Expressing Feeling, and as Feeling is of Aesthetical nature we 
must look at religious development solely from the view of 
Aestheticism, and it must be made clear that all human evolu- 
tion like all evolution of life and creation is fundamentally 
aesthetical evolution. 

We have to thank the religion of the past for the evoking of 
visionary power through creating Fear of the Unknown, and 
we have to thank it for the inducement of High Art, that is 
Visionary expression of the Unseen. The visualizing power of 
the past was necessarily subnormal as psychology and mysti- 
cism prove. The past suppressed the normal development of 
Psyche and psychic powers, with the result that the present has 
created by necessity first a science of Psycho-Pathology, the aim 
of which is to cure pathological mentality and to find out the 
causes of such derangements. Like the beginning of all posi- 
tive sciences the origin of psychology was of analytic nature, 
and it is now gradually becoming synthetic in the measure that 
it transcends the causes. The original of any science is at the 
very inception of its experimental, negative, alchemistic and ab- 
stract, and the religion of the past presents the negative an- 
cestor of a positive science of creative psychology. The course 
of the evolution of every religion ends in a revolution. We can 
clearly recognize the course of revolution as well as of the 
reformation in the slow and sure breaking up of religion which 



28 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

follows a schism. The moment a fissiparation breaks a religion 
into fragments a reformatory endeavor sets in, coincidental 
with a revolutionary movement. The reformers were the re- 
ligionists, the revolutionists the artists. The reformer led the 
religion of the past to extinction, the revolutionists create the 
religion of the future. The revolutionist propounds altogether 
new and universal emancipating principles instead of religious, 
dogmatic, sectarian principles. The religions of the past and 
the future have as much in common as the shadow of an ob- 
ject has with the object itself, and, as little as the alchemistic 
abstract philosophy of the past and the positive philosophy of 
life of the future. Pragmatism, for instance, represents a re- 
formatory process of outworn, dying, pathological, philosophi- 
cal theories and dogmas. The philosophy of the future is al- 
ready in the making outside of philosophical circles just as the 
religion develops outside of religious circles. 

Religion itself was an antidote against pure feeling of the 
Unknown, without formful representative expression,, that is, 
without high art. It was also like abstract philosophy an 
antidote against "common sense" without imaginative power 
and incentive. The mind exercises itself incessantly in trans- 
cendentalizing its powers of projection, and religions and philo- 
sophies of the past were adapted to this process. They repre- 
sent to us the puzzle of contradictions which we have to recon- 
cile and on which we can exercise and practice our critical 
transcending power — ever seeking to solve the riddle of life 
and creation for ourselves on a universal base of understanding. 
This riddle was not solved for us by our ancestors. They but 
added complexities that serve to spur our critical power of 
transcendentalization, from which we shall derive the strength, 
the equipment and the vision to solve it for ourselves. The 
basic fears of the past precluded a daring to encroach upon the 
secret of the Unknown. ' The developing present is unafraid to 
venture. 

All religions are built on archaic foundations, and the 
roots of all religions extend deep down into the remote past 
of humanity. As the roots have sprung from abnormal con- 
ceptions they are closely related to the Immoral and Egotistic, 
and religion of the past is therefore much more interested in 



METAPSYCHICS 29 

morality than in aestheticism. It is also more interested in the 
Abnormal rather than in the Normal. This interest in the ab- 
normal and immoral must naturally exhaust itself in time, be- 
cause the continuous accentuation of the abnormal, or evil as 
it is called, must tend to the increase of it. It is a psychic law 
that the more we center on any process the more we develop it, 
and the present day's trend is therefore towards propounding 
the good instead of the evil by way of wholesome reaction 
against extreme abnormal development. The present day's 
revivalism through pronouncing anew a devil cult and the ex- 
istence of a devil is only the last stage of the Pagan Religion 
of the past, which has produced through its centering on evil 
such gross abuse that the defects become evident and their 
abolition hastened. Mysticism is a cult with the Normal. It 
deals with the normal and seeks to understand the causes of 
the abnormal and the immoral. It expands through developing 
the higher normal out of the abnormal. 

The extremely abnormal stage of our culture and civiliza- 
tion has reached such a destructive stage that we are searching 
for the real causes of it, and the effort we spend in transcend- 
ing to the causes leads us automatically to the Understanding 
of the cause of all things created. It leads us to a higher under- 
standing and a higher vision of the Creative Force itself and 
of the laws and principles which govern its workings. 

In order to understand these workings a high degree of 
Feeling, or aestheticism, is necessary, which enables one to react 
unconsciously against the abnormal, and thus recognize the 
higher normal. It is therefore always Feeling and Aestheti- 
cism to which we do wisely to yield, and the tendency of the 
age automatically opens the path to such development. It has 
recognized and developed principles which lead to 1 a readier 
recognition and a higher development of Feeling and aesthet- 
icism. It is therefore with such principles with which the teach- 
ings of the religion and art of the future is concerned. The 
means are practical psychics, constructive creative aesthetical 
occultism, or in short the Development of creative psychic 
powers. All that can be embraced in a positive science of 
psychology forms and informs our Psyche, and forms and in- 
forms thereby our aestheticism and Feeling. That all positive 



30 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

sciences reach out in time into the realms of the occult has long 
been recognized. No striving, however sincere, can obviate this 
because our visioning powers increase and clamor for expres- 
sion despite all attempted opposition. The trouble is that we 
try to avoid these realms because they demand deeper think- 
ing, and we are taught to undervalue our mental capabilities. 
As we become more familiar with the processes of Life and 
Mind we can no longer be intimidated by dread of what further 
progress may disclose. "We gradually but inevitably become 
accustomed to react to normal impulses and to remain unmoved 
by uncanny fears of what revelations of science may next com- 
pel attention. The principles of the religion of the future are 
the purely scientific principles of the Subliminal Mind. We 
see in such sciences as higher mathematics how visionary power 
evolves on a material plane, just as our visualizing power in- 
creases with the study of electricity. Their evolution is marked 
by the invention and use of formulas, signs and characters. In 
religion, art and mathematics this is still more evident. All 
sciences have been aided by the means of vision which higher 
mathematics has developed. Mysticism creates signs, formulas 
and characters representative of higher dimensional Creative 
Rhythm. Symbols are abstractions of rhythm only. Higher 
mathematics would have been impossible without the conception 
of realms of abstractions. Religion represents the first forma- 
tion of an abstract science, and all positive sciences have come 
out of reaction against abstract and alchemistic sciences. All 
depend therefore on the development of visionary powers which 
religion has initiated through fear of the Unknown. All strive 
toward cognition of the Unknown, but with distinct signs 
and formulas. All strive for an understanding of the Infinite, 
all express part of the Infinite, all help in a better understanding 
of it. It is the province of art to express it in spiritual form — 
that is in higher harmonious Rythm. All strive to relieve the 
strain which fear has placed on the mind in order that every 
one may recognize truth for himself. Higher mathematics, 
through its use of its scientific symbols, has reduced the pres- 
sure on the mind which religious symbolism had produced, and 
every progress in positive science reduces it further. Meta- 
psychics however, deals with subliminal creative and mental 



METAPSYCHICS 31 

healing processes: a reconciliation of science with religion. 
Metaphysics has thus far been of all sciences the highest anti- 
dote because it has created a metaphysical view of creation, and 
we can best express higher dimensional things scientifically 
with the aid of metaphysical expressions of higher dimensional 
vistas. It is thus that we arrive at the interpretation of mysti- 
cal art as Fourth Dimensional art, resultant upon reaction 
against the restricting influence of fear. Complete reaction 
against fear cannot, however, come except by way of complete 
revolution of visionary power. 

All intellectual products of the past, including the products 
of organized religious effort, represent restricting forces which 
create and increase friction and pressure on the mind. They 
invite the inventor and the artist as well as the sociologist to 
work towards decrease of friction within the mind and between 
individuals. They invite all really earnest minds to increase 
their critical and transcending power — that is their psychic 
effort, which is aroused through unconscious reaction against 
restricting influences. Their work is therefore towards enlight- 
enment of mind, and their work represents mental healing, 
restoration of ease and surmounting disease. 

Metaphysics as well as religion differentiate themselves from 
metapsychics through the effort to find knowledge and vision 
of the Unknown through means of development of vision on the 
intellectual plane. Symbolism in art and religion is thus striv- 
ing towards the material plane although they contain elements 
of spiritual nature. The material plane is a necessary stepping 
stone from the subnormal to the higher normal or mystical. The 
higher normal can only be reached through Positive Develop- 
ment of Psyche which process implies the substitution of su- 
perior for inferior vision. This leads to a higher vision on the 
material plane and to a progress in inventions and sciences in 
general. These processes are all automatic and reciprocal. The 
development of the intellect is a necessary concomitant just 
as creative activity and physical training are necessary pro- 
cesses on their respective planes. The additional training of 
our psychic nature makes us more nearly perfect — more di- 
vinely creative, and makes for a Greater Humanity. Psychic 
creativeness or "spontaneous creative action" as it may be 



32 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

called, can be developed only side by side with general cre- 
ativeness — a heedlessness of and resistance to the urge to 
inventiveness, experiment, enterprise and adventure, furnished 
the excrementitious compost in which symbolism found rest. 
It becomes therefore evident why our modes of education 
have not perfected our culture and civilization in accordance 
with the demand of the age. The world war is only a sympto- 
matic incident of the neglect to develop Psyche to meet the 
requirements of the era. It takes such a catastrophe as a 
world war and perhaps still more bloody revolutions to blow 
our shallow culture and civilization from the face of the earth. 
The evolutionary process occasionally manifests in catas- 
trophic upheavals as evidence that organic growth is not the 
result of mere adaptation and leisurely reformation. Human 
society has lost its equilibrium and must attain a higher 
status. The process becomes clearer as we approach the cata- 
clysm. The futility of our educational experiments hitherto, 
the invalidity of the philosophical and theological percepts 
and of the pseudo-scientific maxims of a shallow materialism 
account for the distorted interpretation of Life — and the pen- 
alty for futility confronts us in such hellish outbursts as the 
devastations and brutalities of war. Education has consisted 
of contracting, instead of expanding that power of projecting 
the eager and discerning transcendent perceptions of the 
Imagination to serve as a bridge between Cause and Effect. 
Because of this, events quite inevitable take us by surprise. 
We stifle imagination for fear of what may be disclosed, and 
our very fear provokes disaster. Fear exercises a depression 
of the mind which calls forth an increased effort far out of 
proportion to the pressure. If this pressure is not removed 
through an increased transcendental Insight and a clearer 
Vision there comes an explosion which is destructive instead 
of creative. The excessive accumulation of energy produced 
in our age must be directed aright through higher enlighten- 
ment on spiritual planes or it leads to perversion. A credu- 
lous sluggishness serves to relieve the pressure for a while, 
but decreases self-control, thus diminishing psychic power. 
When, at length, the soporific effects of a too easy credulity 
have worn off, it is found that we have paid for our yielding 



METAPSYCHICS 33 

to fear at the cost of a diminished power of wholesome self- 
suggestion. Then we have the mob spirit in action, which 
theretofore had been latent but not absent. Psychic self-control 
is the result of well cultivated instincts and emotions of psychic 
origin that had been neglected. The mob spirit of the religi- 
ous fanatic, of the aristocrat, of the rabid beneficiary of priv- 
ilege, differs in no respect from the mob spirit of the exploited 
classes. This mob spirit can be destroyed only through a 
higher application of the emancipating principle of love — 
itself a radiation of higher vision of the Creative Force. 

On the other hand, every effort of the dominant class in 
any community to restrict and suppress and pervert a subject 
class — usually the workers, the inventors, the useful class — 
serves to stimulate the psychic power of the victims of sup- 
pression. The emancipating Principle of Love, developed out 
of reaction against the ludicrous doctrine of fear, can no 
longer be checked with impunity. The contemplation and 
the knowledge of the Emancipating Principles which the dif- 
ferent religions excited, represent the bright spots in the evo- 
lution of mankind from the domination of fear. These emanci- 
patory principles were not postulated by the disseminators 
of theologies, but developed in spite of those cults of super- 
stitions whose office was the conciliation of an irascible and 
ruthless deity. It is always lack of visionary power of our 
educators and leaders through which wars and tragedies are 
caused. What our reactionary forces have yet to learn is that 
they cannot keep forever the vision of the kingdom of heaven 
from application on earth through maintaining fear and 
through resorting to the pagan Hebrew-Babylonian gospel of 
original sin for maintaining of their power, instead of culti- 
vating Christ's gospel of Love to its highest possible perfec- 
tion. This can only be accomplished through proclaiming a 
religion without a devil. All further abuse of the Creative 
Force can only lead to a higher conception and a higher state 
of love in the end, but at the cost of intermediate disaster and 
ruin. 

The logical deference to the Creative Force is necessarily 
a cult of Creativeness. All devil cult is pagan, subnormal and 



34 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

immoral just as all abstinence from creativeness is immoral, 
because it decreases consciousness and conscience. 

The real nature of the Unknown is psychic or spiritual 
and can only become known through increase of creative 
capability which must be assisted by psychic power. The Un- 
known increases in the same measure as humanity increases 
its creative psychic power. On the other hand, Truth flees 
from us in the measure that we neglect to solve its mystery 
through enlightening and forming our psyche. Or in other 
words : Truth becomes more fleeting as we develop onesidedly 
and therefore lopsidedly, and becomes more real and obvious 
to the extent that we cultivate our psychic power as well. 
We cannot solve the riddle of life and the Creative Force with 
the intellect alone. The riddle is that we ourselves are the 
Unknown, at least its foremost exponent. As we develop 
physically, mentally and psychically — symmetrically, so shall 
we understand the riddle of the Unknown of which we are an 
inseparable part. In the very same measure do we increase 
automatically the Unknown. The great Unknown, like our 
individual part of it, is always far in advance of our consci- 
ousness of it. The riddle can only be solved along with the 
development and understanding of Creative Rythm, the prin- 
ciples of which are exemplified in mystical high art. It can 
only be acquired through the sincere effort to Know Oneself 
as well as to understand one's neighbor. This effort leads 
to the relationship which exists between all humanity and 
all created objects and especially to the contradistinguished 
psychic relationship between humanity and the fruitful flower- 
ing of verdant nature. These different relationships have 
been expounded respectively by the emancipators of the West 
and the East, by Christ and Buddha. The study, knowledge 
and exercise of the principles which the different religions 
and beliefs have provoked are by necessity an indispensible 
help, because they represent the foremost exponents of the 
collective experience of the human race toward understand- 
ing of the Unknown, and its relation to the Known. 

This continuity of progress of the Unknown, and the prog- 
ressive ascendency of humanity to a higher plane of consci- 
ousness and a readier capacity for logic has manifested in 



METAPSYCHICS 35 

higher planes of art expression. What was symbolism be- 
comes mysticism, and a consequent opening np of higher di- 
mensional realms for art expression. The positive science of 
psychology has shorn Supernaturalism, Occultism and Mysti- 
cism of their chief perplexity, and we have recognized that 
the principles which govern creative and re-creative psychic 
phenomena are the principles which govern the Creative 
Force itself. With the increase of our knowledge of the prin- 
ciples which govern mysticism and higher dimensional phe- 
nomena in general we have become acquainted with the Super- 
natural, so to say. It has lost its estranging aspect through 
excitirg our interest, and thus our emotion of fear is sup- 
planted by that trusting unafraidness — of Love. Herein lies 
the mystical aspect and power of Interest, Inquisitiveness, At- 
tention and Love as antidotes against fear and its perverting 
influence. 

There is no need to be afraid to explore higher dimensional 
realms no more than we need to be afraid to explore lower 
dimensional or subnormal realms, because we have the Un- 
known within us and need only be told how to study and con- 
ceive its workings through Experiment and Reflex in order 
to develop the higher out of the lower. 

The increase of perception of the Creative Force has al- 
ways depended on the inspiration of the artist, and we have 
to learn from him how to perceive it. The secret lies in the 
creative development of our psyche, and the power of per- 
ception depends on the same mental attitude which the mysti- 
cal artist has to acquire in order to create true art or Higher 
Reality as it is called. All that surrounds us and that we per- 
ceive with the intellect and the objective senses is natural — 
or Objective Creation — Reality. All that we have to tran- 
scend with the psychical or spiritual senses is Supernatural — 
or Higher Reality. Pathological psyche creates the subnormal, 
which the mystic has to re-create. The normal process is, 
however, that the individual re-creates himself through tran- 
scending' the causes of his aberrations, and the effort which 
we spend on transcending and Knowing ourselves is " Healing 
mental and bodily sicknesses." It rests in the inherent power 
of Self Suggestion. We have individually neglected to de- 



36 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

velop this power and our age has therefore developed the 
psychiatrist. The artist and mystic are essentially psychi- 
atrists. Mysticism, like all occult phenomena, is so intensely 
natural that it is supernatural. Everyone is born a mystic, 
but evolution demands that he lose himself in experiment into 
creative and procreative processes, acquiring higher Feeling 
and higher mystical power through Rebirth as a result of 
inner effort. The process of metamorphosis of the individual 
demands a Reincarnation of the Spirit in the Flesh, which 
makes him again a mystic. 

The Natural is in its essence Supernatural because it has 
the God within itself, but Fear of the Unknown — engendered 
by stifling of incentive, inquisitiveness, energy, interest, cre- 
ativeness, and general discouragement of the experimental 
urge — has made our conception of It perverse and anti-natural. 
The moment we transcend our wrong conception of it and 
recognize its true nature, we become mystical like creation 
itself. All is relative only and planes of relativeness imply 
different planes of understanding. Mysticism is a transforma- 
tion of planes of understanding which call powers into action 
that produce automatically something higher out of the lower. 

The mystery is simple to the understanding when we em- 
ploy comparative analogy and imagination. The higher di- 
mensional differs as much from the lower dimensional as 
universal ideals differ from sectarian ideals, or as the religions 
of the past differ from a universal religion of the future, which 
latter represents an organic fusion of the emancipating princi- 
ples which have been produced along with different religions 
and beliefs. Or in other comparisons : as much as metaphysics 
differs from simple mathematics, or a positive science differs 
from the alchemy of the middle ages. Higher dimensional 
things are supernatural because they are of psychic nature 
and origin. That process develops spontaneously, but a most 
experimental and inquisitive mind must dig things out be- 
fore the masses become aware of a process which is in the 
making. 

The mystical mind is the inquisitive experimental mind: 
the spirit of the inventor plus the spirit of the artist. It is for 
us to flexily accommodate ourselves to the Useful which the 



METAPSYCHICS 37 

one invents and the Beautiful which the other depicts. We 
acquire through their example and their aid. Whether they 
will it or not they are leaders — they together reveal to us 
the Creative Force in action. In the past they manifested 
through their work alone, their more or less tardy followers 
profiting from it. As we emerge from the domination of Fear 
both inventor and artist, and their disciples more receptive 
of the significance of their achievements, our knowledge of 
the Creative Force has broadened and continues to expand. 
It is the combined inventive and artistic spirit which must be 
cultivated, and this spirit strives after universalization of all 
social factors. Humanity becomes higher dimensional as it 
becomes Universal. The mystical mind is the Universal Mind. 
As humanity becomes universal in that measure our acts and 
art expressions become mystical. Whether the changing order 
accomplishes its inevitable revolution tranquilly or in bloody 
turbulence depends on the contemporary disposition to cling 
to the institutionalized futilities of the past, or fall into step 
with the pioneers whose mission it is to blaze the path toward 
a Unison of mankind in order to insure a higher consciousness 
and thus a higher creativeness. 

It is therefore universal ideas, ideals and principles with 
which the teaching of mysticism and metapsychics is concerned, 
which principles conform to the Creative Force or God, as 
we are used to call it. The teaching and transcending of such 
principles has an enlightening and levitating influence both on 
the individual and the social organism, reducing friction and 
gravity within and without. It decreases the molecular weight 
of the individual and makes him easier to create. Like art 
and invention it is: "as if given." 

The value of Metapsychics and creative Mysticism rests 
on its capability to increase creative efficiency automatically, 
and the process rests on the self-evoiving principle of the Uni- 
verse which is inherent to ourselves and to the universe. The 
more we become acquainted with the workings of the Creative 
Force the higher creative do we become, because our Joy of 
Action increases in the same degree as the Richness and Joy 
of Life increases and the whole process depends on the in- 



38 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

terest which we take in creative processes as well as in all 
objects of creation. 

The first necessary step to develop mysticism is to become 
acquainted with the principles and facts which have an en- 
lightening influence on the psyche and clear our vision with- 
out which we cannot form and inform that entity of ours, and 
cannot develop it normally. The actual development comes 
through our inner effort along with creative activity. Creative 
mysticism differs from religious mysticism, which is created 
through a-social development and retiring from human inter- 
course and creativeness more or less. The present age is ad- 
verse to the development of purely religious mysticism, be- 
cause we cannot return to a purely, a-logical, state of mind. 
Its time is passed because symbolism has broadened. Human- 
ity has with greater universal intercourse created a broader 
vision. Unfortunately most of our becoming mystics fall in 
the course of development into the mazes of spiritism or revert 
to ascetic ecstasy. Ours is an age imbued with creative prob- 
lems and not of asceticism. A-social development, which for- 
merly led to transcendentalism and religious mysticism, leads 
today to perversion. The difference must be made clearer in 
further interpretations. Creative mysticism is the broadest 
of all current educational problems, and all the foremost edu- 
cators expound its principles with the intent to develop psychic 
creative powers. 

In order to develop creative mysticism and mysticism in 
general it is necessary to forget and revolutionize one's con- 
ventional culture and knowledge, and let one's psychic self 
become alive through fostering its activity. Interest in hu- 
manity as a whole and in individual endeavor, and all effort 
which makes for greater universalization of our knowledge, 
are all that is needed to set the supernatural machine within 
us in motion. As all spiritual and mystical things are dis- 
tinctly problems of vision and imagination these latter must be 
improved and directed toward the Whole as well as toward its 
main dual aspects, the Useful and the Beautiful alike. These 
latter two combine in the Avhole of the Great Unknown. There- 
in lies the mystical aspect of "the Creative Force in Action." 
We estrange ourselves from the Creative Force as we estrange 



METAPSYCHICS 39 

ourselves from either the Useful or the Beautiful, and see 
it in symbols only with attributes, but not in true vision. 

All symbols are crutches for lack of something better. As 
long as we cannot see the Unknown in Everything our vision 
of it must be defective. When we once grasp the Principle 
it helps like a vaulting pole to swing us over all obstacles. 
Symbolism restricts the visionary grasp, and to the extent 
that we can see the Useful and the Beautiful — that is God — 
in everything, our vision of it increases automatically, and 
makes our acts and art expression conform more truly in rela- 
tivity with it. As long as we conceive the Unknown as the 
Unknowable we get estranged from it and " strain our eyes in 
vain in the dark, because we see without loving," quoting the 
saying of ancient wisdom. 

It is Fear which keeps humanity in bondage. As we emerge 
from that bondage therei comes into our consciousness spon- 
taneously an irresistible apperception of the principle of the 
Creative Force. This cognition becomes more vivid with the 
aid of self suggestion and Affirmation and reasoning through 
Feeling. We perceive that this Creative Principle underlies 
all evolution in any science, progress and success. Its cogni- 
tion demands the development and exercise of more than ordi- 
nary common sense on the plane of the supernatural as well 
as on other planes. Our reasoning power develops coincidently 
with the expansion of our phyche, or else our subjective rea- 
soning is as mischievous as our inductive reasoning process. 
Both reciprocally operative lead to truth. Our philosophy as 
well as religion deduces from theoretical principles and such 
abstract dogmas as do not conform to creative principles. 
Positive philosophy of life acknowledges that we cannot solve 
the riddle of life and creation with the intellect alone, nor 
solely with the powers of the psyche. We must lose fear of 
abnormal psychic products of spiritual life and spirit mani- 
festations in general, in order to develop our spiritual self. 
This necessitates a "clear brain," or better, a "cleared brain 
focus of vision." This can be accomplished only through 
critical clarifying of the psyche which is responsible for all 
vision and imagination, together with the materialization of 
it in the form of spirit and spiritual expressions. There are 



40 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

countless tendencies to get our brain chambers filled with 
impressions which darken our brain focus of vision, Every 
single impression leaves its impress in our nervous system. 
But it is much more difficult to disintegrate the abnormal and 
unsatisfactory impressions and winnow from out of their em- 
barrassing multitude a few good visions of "what might be." 
If we leave undisturbed our wrong and undigested concep- 
tions and impressions we store in our brain-cells condensa- 
tions which obscure the "Light." We must use our own in- 
born transcendental, critical power to discard the chimerical 
and unfounded — to UNLEARN, as modern educational science 
terms it. We can improve only through unlearning, and the 
creating of "First-Hand Knowledge" as the knowledge which 
comes with life experiences may be called. We can get first- 
hand knowledge of spiritual things only through developing 
our psyche,, and not through memorizing and repeating the 
litanies of the past. 

It is an axiom of biology that with the complexity of our 
knowledge individual consciousness must be increased in order 
that the Higher will no longer be sacrificed to the Lower. Our 
present culture and civilization is based on the abuse of psychic 
power and "the survival of the most cunning and the brute." 
Those who could not abuse and would not adapt themselves 
to the principle that only the brute can survive found no room 
in our ethical calendar of the past. It is quite natural that 
those possessing least Feeling manifest the least scruples. As 
the Creative power is invested in our Psyche or Feeling-self 
it is evident that the development of phychic power is ob- 
structed through educational principles which conform to 
the principles of reactionary forces, but not with the progres- 
sive ones. The real progress in human evolution exfoliates 
where least we are likely to expect it. 

Our present day's progress toward a higher culture and 
civilization is caused by the greater universalization of our 
visualizing power which process represents a more lucid in- 
forming of our psyche and the creating of a higher conscious- 
ness and, in consequence, a higher conscience. Universalization 
of knowledge brings with it a clearer understanding of col- 
lective life experiences of nations and races, and collective 



THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 41 

experience will supersede pseudo theories woven by the ego- 
tism of reactionary forces. Such theories represent a restrict- 
ing force against the Enlightenment. The present day's de- 
mand is for theories which establish their validity by the cri- 
terion of positive results. A religion of the future rests solely 
on its positive results, and these results depend on the accept- 
ance of and reliance upon those effective principles that un- 
derlie the Creative Force. 



V 

THE CEEATIVE FORCE, ITS PRINCIPLE, AND 
THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EMANCIPA- 
TION OF THE AGE 

LIFE AND CREATION. THE WORLD AND THE 
CREATOR. ARE ONE AND THE SAME AND SELF- 
EVOLVING. Herein lies the mystery and the mystical aspect 
of life, regeneration and evolution, and the power of the 
divine physical, mental and sexual creativeness of humanity. 
On this fact rests also the emancipating power of the Principle 
of the Creative Force which the transcendental power of the 
age has evolved, and through which it tries to conceive and 
interpret the Very Intent of the Creative Force or God. Dif- 
ferent religions have created various abnormal aspects of the 
Creative Force and different people have therefore generated 
diverging postulates of principles of emancipation. The dif- 
ference between any religion and its principle of emancipation 
represents a Positive Concept with no reserve or qualifying 
contingency which would leave room for doubt as to its very 
nature and intent. If we say God is Love we say there is no 
evil In God nor in Love. Religion, on the other hand, teaches 
nevertheless a Principle of Evil which must be of archaic na- 
ture and therefore abnormal, or subnormal as psychology 
proves. 

The principles of emancipation which have been brought to 
light along with the evolution of religions are of purified or 
acsthetical nature and their strongest appeal is directed to- 



42 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

wards the purification or enlightenment of psychic vision and 
imagination. Every emancipating principle purifies and in- 
creases the power of vision as collective experience and posi- 
tive history indicate, while the archaic dogmatic side of re- 
ligion postulating that principle remains anti-social and anti- 
aesthetical. With the advance of aestheticism the emancipat- 
ing principle becomes increasingly operative, while the retard- 
ing element of dogmatism declines constantly toward extinc- 
tion — requiring extraordinary drafts on credulity in order to 
delay inevitable collapse. The emancipating principles are the 
outgrowth of the artistic spirit; the Emancipators have been 
Artists. Religious evolution is fundamentally art revolution. 
Our creative power increases with, and in consequence of, ex- 
panding and extending power of psychic vision ; and with the 
cognition of the emancipating principle art creativeness as well 
as general creativeness increases. The reason for this increase 
lies in the fact that all psychic enlightenment has an elevating 
and levitating effect, which makes humanity more highly crea- 
tive. At the root of all creativeness and creation is a working 
principle we call God, and, as the conception of it has been 
evolving, the power of human creativeness has become more 
active. It is evident that the conception of the emancipating 
principle which stands for the Creative Force has been induced 
by the creative part of humanity, and represents also the eman- 
cipating principle of the age. The fact is that the credit for it 
has not been properly attributed. The process may be said to 
be reciprocally compensatory. The principle of emancipation is 
no less the matrix than the offspring of man's conception of 
the Creative Force. Through that consecration of soul that 
comes from the casting out of fear, man is prompted to conform 
his activities to principles and processes that he instinctively 
feels to be true — each successful outcome of this "unafraid- 
ness" to rely on the Creative Force has spurred to greater 
reliance, each forward step resulting in augmented creative 
power. In other phrase : humanity has evolved itself automat- 
ically through increase of its own creativeness along with the 
increase of its instinctive Feeling into creative processes. This 
implies that humanity's further advance in creativeness will 
be similarly attained through further increase of feeling, and 



THE PRINCIPLE OP EMANCIPATION 43 

a consequently firmer understanding of principles which govern 
all creative processes. 

The principle of the Creative Force mirrors the workings 
of the creative Force itself. As this compensatory process be- 
comes increasingly obvious from multiplying aspects, the more 
securely we lay hold on that principle the more competently 
creative we become. Principles reveal themselves to the most 
acute aspiring and inspired in sharp outline — more vaguely to 
many sensitive if less inquisitive ones. At first but a few are 
animated to concentrate on the most diverse creative processes 
and to explore and chart the entrancing vistas they are gifted 
to perceive. Creative concentration leads to the soul of things, 
as it increases transcending power, and thus brings enlighten- 
ment with respect of the Creative Force. The cognition of an 
emancipating principle may be compared to discovery of wire- 
less radiography or the invention of the flying machine on 
which many inspired minds had concentrated before a culmina- 
tion resulted. Like any invention or discovery it must be fur- 
ther evolved and developed. All is "in the air" so to say, there 
being always many inspired minds unconsciously working to- 
wards the emancipation of humanity just as other reactionary 
minds lacking this concentrating purposefulness, are constantly 
busy to hinder. The fact is : the creative processes need to be 
practiced to be understood, in order to come into an informed 
consciousness of the Creative Force. 

All reliable interpretations of the Creative Force, or God, 
depends on a true valuation of positive principles thus far 
discovered. Humanity thanks Christ for revealing the principle 
of the Creative Force as Love. This principle compelled rec- 
ognition despite the extreme anti-social and materialistic age to 
which it was promulgated. Its development is the result of 
reaction against the extreme egotism and materialism which 
the preceding age had developed and which still reigns. This 
world war is merely the beginning of a revolutionary move- 
ment which can only end when antiquated parts of our teach- 
ings, which have perverted our conception of the Creative 
Force, are repudiated. As yet our western civilizations, how- 
ever progressive, remain dominated to some extent by the sur- 
vival of vestiges of Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian and Jew- 



U CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

ish conceptions of religion. Here again we may see the re- 
ciprocal interplay of tendencies. A slave civilization develops 
from a religion in which fear is the predominating factor, and 
pari passu a slave religion develops in such a civilization. 
Such principle of the Creative Force as Love could only be 
developed amid conditions where Love is most scorned and the 
procreative faculty most abused. The same emancipating prin- 
ciple that got its most formidable impetus from the teachings 
of Jesus, was present in the religions that had preceded those 
revolutionary utterances. But the priests of those earlier 
cults, while not ignorant of that principle, preferred to min- 
imize its importance, where it was not more expedient to either 
ignore, or forthrightly to resist, its claim. It was scarcely to 
be expected that the interests that thrived upon the persistence 
of the fear-thought, should bestir themselves to dispelling fear. 
On the contrary, the merit and virtue of a dread of the Creative 
Force was constantly extolled. It cannot be doubted that 
among the master class, and the priesthood that ministered to 
that class, there was a recognition of Love as the cohesive force 
of any worth-while social relationship. But, like the master- 
class of all ages, they were more concerned for their immediate 
privileges than for the remote happiness of mankind in gen- 
eral. Nevertheless, from the preachments of fear sprouted in 
the minds of the slave class the consciousness that the creative 
forces manifesting in the very nature of things were benign. 
And when at length the Nazarene proclaimed the doctrine that 
God is Love, it was the common people that "heard Him 
gladly," for they were gratified to have confirmation of their 
own consciousness of the emancipatory principle, — a conscious- 
ness that had, in a vague and inarticulate way, permeated the 
minds of man. It required the divine daring of the Nazarene 
to bring that twilight apprehension to full light of day — to 
focus, as it were, the hazy concept lurkingly lingering in the 
hearts of the people — to give it coherence and stability. 

An age that invents the powerful motor or masters the 
electric current and studies the inner working of the atom has 
naturally a quite different conception of creative processes and 
of creative forces than an age which indolently lags. It is 
an axiom in human evolution that the most forward striving 



THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 45 

and inspired minds, which are naturally the most sensitive 
minds, evolve within themselves that part of Creative Force 
which is most abused and derided at the time. It is this that 
emancipation of an age implies: the freeing of the age from 
its particular degradation. Love, however, does not represent 
the Whole of the principle, especially not to a symbolical age, 
but it is an essential element of it. Love is at the root of all 
creativeness and is a prime factor in the awakening and devel- 
opment of Feeling. It is therefore a psychic enlightening 
force, spiritual in its nature. The Creative Force is always 
broader and deeper than our conception of it. It is repre- 
sented within us by our psyche or feeling self which is always 
ahead of our intellectual self, and in the measure as we increase 
the creativeness of our psyche do we increase our creativeness, 
as well as the conception and vision of the emancipating prin- 
ciple. The progress in humanity is always reciprocal. Vision, 
feeling, creativeness increase together automatically, one helps 
the other just as our hands and feet and our senses help us 
reciprocally to climb a ladder with more or less agility, or to 
climb it at all. Those that "fear" do not start to climb. Love 
of the light is a product of visionary power. Visionary power 
is the product of our Psyche or Feeling Self, which in turn 
means an increase of Aestheticism. Thus all progress is of 
aesthetical nature, fundamentally speaking, and to the extent 
that we increase aesthetically in that measure do we increase 
our conception of the Creative Force automatically. What I 
wish to express is that love is the most essential part of 
aestheticism and therefore of emancipation, but aestheticism 
must aspire to greater and more exalted heights and express it- 
self on higher and higher planes unceasingly. Every emancipa- 
ting principle has both a creative and an aesthetical aspect, and 
religion must become in time a cult of aestheticism and creative- 
ness. Religion that will not overcome anti-aesthetical tenden- 
cies incident to every cult of negation (or devil-cult) is futile. 
Devil-cult implies a cult of fear, and fear reduces creative 
power to a lower level. Fear saps the love out of creativeness, 
rendering it impotent to generate feeling or aestheticism. The 
problem of the religion of the future is therefore a religion of 
higher creativeness, or a cult with human creativeness. 



46 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

It was among slave-holding races that the emancipating 
principles of love was pronounced, and is beginning to find 
recognition. Amongst people unacquainted with slavery there 
developed other principles of emancipation because their orig- 
inal religious conception of the Creative Force and creative 
as well as procreative processes were different. We have to 
turn our attention to the East in order to find different emanci- 
pating principles. The East has never abused and degraded 
the creativeness of humanity to such a degree as the West, 
and has naturally not degraded the procreative faculty, woman- 
hood and childhood, so much but that a cult of love and an 
emancipation through love could be developed and proclaimed. 
The religion of the East has also developed a cult of Fear of 
the Creative Force, but it was Fear of Nature rather than Fear 
of Man. This fear of nature created subnormal vision of an 
impersonal aspect of the Creative Force, and a symbolism with 
nature. The emancipating principle of the East is therefore 
created out of reaction against fear of nature, whilst the 
emancipating principle of the West is created out of reaction 
against fear of man. The principle of emancipation of the 
East is therefore of impersonal aspect and grew out of reaction 
against an impersonal symbolical high art, whilst the West 
has still to react against a personal symbolical art. The West 
has not yet developed a high art with nature because it had 
never developed a symbolical or subnormal cult with nature, 
but had developed a subnormal cult with man and a subnormal 
or symbolical art with man. 

The difference of the emancipating principle of the East 
and the West must therefore become evident as we come to 
understand art. An understanding of religion demands knowl- 
edge of what constitutes art. All creation is art creation. The 
laws that govern creation govern true art. We cannot define 
earlier religions unless we transcend different religions and 
their high arts, and when we have accomplished this we know 
the laws that govern the religion and art of the future. Nor 
can we interpret art and religion without interpreting life and 
creation. The true knowledge and vision of the Creative Force 
itself is a natural consequence. Religion is the result of sub- 
normal vision caused through fear, with the result of project- 



THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 47 

ing the vision of the Creative Force outside of oneself. The 
greater the reaction against fear the purer and higher the art, 
and love increases in the same degree. We have to abolish fear 
by abolishing a religion of fear and replacing it by a religion 
of love, and this latter will be an aesthetic cult which appeals 
to the psyche. 

The East has evolved its principle of emancipation along 
with the reaction against symbolism and symbolical high art 
with nature, which principle of emancipation is fundamentally 
an art principle. It is like our own principle of emancipa- 
tion of mystical aesthetical nature. It is represented as 
"Harmony, Unity 'and Balance": the fundamental principles 
governing high or mystical art. The evolution and discovery 
of this Eastern Principle must be discussed elsewhere. We 
are interested in the principle of Love which Christ proclaimed 
because we can more easily trace the powers which obstructed 
its evolution as well as those which advanced it. It is as strange 
to the East as the Eastern principle is to the West. 

It must seem quite natural that a principle of Love must 
broaden both ways in the course of evolution : intellectually and 
spiritually, and that it cannot remain a dead letter forever. 
Why have nearly two thousand years of so-called Christian 
religion engendered more prostitution of love than develops 
in paganism? And why has the great striving for love not yet 
been realized? Love cannot be developed by a religion which 
keeps an archaic principle of fear alive. It has been developed 
in circles which make for fearless research into creative pro- 
cesses. Positive science, art, invention, sex equality, eugenics, 
all work for greater socialization of humanity and thefore for 
a more progressive civilization and assthetization. The creative 
masses have advanced civilization in spite of our religion of 
fear, through enlightenment as to creative processes. There 
is a logical reason why religion which bears Christ's name has 
failed to respond to His principle of Creative Force. Religion 
still regards sexual things as unclean, the woman as still soul- 
less, the child born in sin. Relations of love are not cultivated 
by religion; on the contrary we are enjoined to fear the most 
vital exercise of love, which cannot but make for prostitution 
of Love. 



48 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

That fear decreases creativeness has been proved through 
the increase of our creativeness since the weakening authority 
of religion. Nations which remained orthodox have fallen far 
behind their more enlightened neighbors in industrial, intel- 
lectual and sesthetical development. Religion has expounded 
the imagined creativeness of an outside god as well as an im- 
agined love and has exalted love and creativeness as abstrac- 
tions above, beyond and foreign to human love and creativeness. 
The religion of the future expounds the creativeness of human- 
ity which is increased through love of humanity. The highest 
gospel will be the "love of creativeness." The riddle is there- 
fore: What has the manifestation of the Creative Force to 
do with the creativeness of humanity and what has the love 
of it to do with the love between humanity and its creativeness ? 
The religionist's conception of God's love and creativeness is 
the abstract concept of human love and creativeness as con- 
ceived by such as think lightly or condemningly of human 
love and procreative processes. The prostitution of human 
love and reproduction is the result of projecting the inborne 
creative power towards an extramundane symbol through a 
perversion of the conception of the procreative power of hu- 
manity. It created thus an abstract conception or a symbol of 
the Creative Force. A symbol is always an abstract desocial- 
ized value. As our symbol- worship has decreased our creative- 
ness has increased. The symbol has lost its value and the human 
personality and its own inborne creativeness took preference. 
The social impetus of the recent past has already found en- 
lightenment through collective experiences and has replaced 
a worship of an imagined god creativeness for a worship of 
human creativeness. The abolition of slavery and the respect 
for the creative part of humanity has increased a thousandfold 
with the waning conception of a personal god belief. The fu- 
ture still more will discard the symbol for the reality and will 
create a positive] science w T hich represents a consecration of 
soul or psyche to creative ends. It replaces a worship of a 
symbol through an increased vision of inborne occult powers. 
This implies that we must conceive the Creative Force in action 
as revealed to us through our own inner consciousness. The 
Creative Force reveals itself to us only through developing our 



THE PRINCIPLE OP EMANCIPATION 49 

own creative powers to the fullest extent, and that implies that 
we develop both our intellect and psyche, and both in harmony. 
Such harmony means essentially love. It proves also that there 
can be nothing evil in the Creative Force, and that all concep- 
tions of evil or devil originate in minds too undeveloped to 
overcome inertia. In a very important sense "the idle mind is 
the devil's workshop." The type of mind that abstains from 
creativeness develops a sense of dependence and fear. Noth- 
ing of progressive value can emanate from such sources. Never- 
theless out of such subnormal perversion of psychic power comes 
an impetus of revolt that inspires the more dynamic in the 
direction of greater inventiveness and higher creativeness. On 
the other hand all creative work begets confidence in oneself 
and therefore in the Creative Force. Thus we can trace the 
sourcs of emancipating principles, and see why this heaven- 
earth is still a foolhouse instead of a paradise. Manifestly sym- 
bolism denotes an unsound conception of the Creative Force. 
Prostitution of love and of creativeness spring from the same 
root. 

Our entire knowledge and wisdom as well as our cultural 
products are so utterly confusing that it becomes evident that 
it takes the development of a much higher consciousness than 
our educators thus far have developed. The real meaning of 
life and creation escapes the psychically and physically inactive. 
Their inability to grasp the causes of evil equals their failure to 
understand the nature of evil, and as well as the nature of Good 
or God in action. Organized religion, aristocracy and militar- 
ism for aggression have everything in common and little to dis- 
tinguish them from each other. All three represent waste which 
manifests the aspect of evil. As this becomes clear waste will 
be avoided and the substance and effort employed toward ad- 
vancing in the direction of a really divine state. 

Our appraisal of the principle of emancipation must be en- 
larged and broadened in order to become increasingly valid. 
We must look into the nature of love as it reveals itself in all 
its) aspects. Love is of mystical creative nature, a mystical 
or occult process which neither symbolism nor intellectual sci- 
ence can lucidly understand and competently interpret. En- 
lightenment as to love comes like all occult mystical processes 



50 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

and products through development of feeling, that is, through 
psychic discernment. The more we develop the one the more 
we develop automatically the other. Love's sex-expression is 
the highest power with which humanity is endowed in order 
to promulge its feeling into life ; and feeling, being of highest 
importance it must follow that love is an sesthetical process 
which reveals the laws that govern all evolution of life and 
creation. Besides being the highest creative power with which 
humanity is endowed, love is also the highest illuminating force, 
enlightening feeling and developing soul. Whatever therefore 
makes for enlightenment must lodge in that great principle 
of the Creative Force that compels to the conviction that GOD 
is ENLIGHTENMENT itself. 

It is upon principles which make for Enlightenment on 
which the, religion of the future must find its base. Quite 
naturally all positive sciences contribute to it, and it is funda- 
mentally a positive science of religion which replaces the re- 
ligion of the past. We may thank the non-creative integers 
of humanity of the past that we have a religion, which, though 
evolved by the creative factors of humanity, has derived no lit- 
tle stimulus from the inactivity of the indolent. The religion 
now evolving is as different from the religion of the past as 
is mediaeval alchemy from modern chemistry. What religion 
was developed out of the past is upside down and inside out. 
The religion of the future develops the God Within. This posi- 
tive science of religion has as many aspects as its principle 
of emancipation. The social, civic and economic will be as 
vitally affected as the occult, aesthetic and artistic aspect. The 
evolution of the coming religion proceeds upon the very re- 
verse of the animating purpose of earlier religions : the restric- 
tion of enlightenment. 

As the Creative Force represents a working principle which 
expresses itself in the makeup of every created object and 
therefore in the most different expressions it must be evident 
that our highest acts and art expressions must in future express 
and reflect that principle. As it is expressed in all individual 
life so too is it destined to manifest in a collective universal 
understanding of that principle. In other words, all humanity 
must reach in time a certain mental homogeneity. The genetic 



THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 51 

and specific homogeneity of humanity is proved by the fact 
that reproductive sexual coition is not only possible but highly 
beneficial. All the progress of humanity has manifested through 
intermingling of blood and thought alike. All real progress in 
culture and civilization, and thus all progress of humanity, has 
been increased through increased intercourse. Intellectual and 
epiritual homogeneity of humanity will come in spite of all 
those reactionary forces which in the past have hindered it. If 
it cannot come in peace it comes through war. This homo- 
geneity is obviously of dual nature because all our mentality is 
dual, that is : intellectual or scientific on the one hand, and spir- 
itual, that is psychic, occult or mystical, on the other. This 
mental duality becomes pronounced as both the counterparts 
become developed. The more universal our intellect becomes 
the more universal must become our understanding of the prin- 
ciple governing our psyche. All separation of humanity has led 
to heterogeneity, and their unification must lead to univer- 
ealization and a homogeneity of a higher order. 

All universalization of ideas and ideals leads to higher ideals 
and to a universal conception of the Creative Force. The pres- 
ent day's trend toward a universal religion through teaching 
the most beneficial ideas and ideals that all religions have pro- 
duced, is the best proof that humanity is not going to follow 
the religious dogmatist in the future. To become acquainted 
with other religious and other high art expressions is quite nat- 
urally a better means of enlightenment than to hear only one 
side of the feud which keeps humanity fighting each other on 
the so-called heavenly plane. We long for an Open Forum 
whereon to settle material differences, and a tribunal in which 
intellectual differences may be compared, and so, in perhaps 
some similar fashion shall we learn to dispose of spiritual dis- 
sension. The better wisdom will survive just as it survives in 
positive science. 

The separation of humanity into castes and creeds belonged 
to an era of fear and distrust. Unity and harmony and mutual 
confidence are the offsprings of love. Every incursion into 
the realms of the supernatural centers on ideas which blossom 
into ideals. They must necessarily be of experimental nature 
at first, and must stand the test of use and practice. Cumula- 



52 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

tive experience indicates that they are pathological first and 
destroy themselves in time, and out of reaction and re-creation 
rises the higher ideal, which is wholesome and can evolve. 
This evolutionary process with consecutive revolution and re- 
creation represents always a greater universalization. We 
live in an age wherein pathological products are being revo- 
lutionized; we not merely reform them, because all reforming 
in the past has only led to greater obscuring and confusing 
of the truth. 

All progress in culture and civilization has been caused 
through a stern revelation of pathological processes, and the 
recognition of wholesome principles. This progress has been 
won by the revolutionist, never by the reformer. We are all 
aware that on the development of positive science depends the 
unification ' of humanity, and positive science of psychology 
must replace the negative religion of the past. That this sci- 
ence, which is in the making, has shaken the foundation of 
our religion to the very depth is proof of its efficiency. All 
positive psychic development disintegrates psycho-pathological 
impresses automatically; all improvement of occult or sub- 
jective powers integrates, that is re-incarnates the spirit in 
the flesh. Religion and art cover only part of the wide range 
of spiritual or occult processes, but, at present, the most prom- 
inent part. The future will take even greater interest in the 
development of other spiritual, psychic or occult phenomena 
and processes. The understanding of the manifold occult phe- 
nomena and processes leads naturally to their development. 
A positive science of religion of the future includes their de- 
velopment, because they make for higher creativeness. Re- 
ligion is quite naturally the cause of much of their malforma- 
tion, but just as religion has increased our power of vision 
through creating fear so has it also evoked other psychic or 
occult powers through fear. However, such perversions help 
us to recognize their origin and purpose. Humanity has never 
cognized the truth until after disaster had resulted from its 
earlier rejection. It was re-cognized, as it were, after cogni- 
tion had been denied. That religion of the past separated 
itself from normal occult processes and their development is 
only natural, and a logical consequence of extramundane ex- 



THE PRINCIPLE OF EMANCIPATION 53 

cursions into abstract realms, which led to disregard of the 
laws of nature. With the exhaustion of the abstract or super- 
stitious realm we arrive at a positive science which makes for 
a study of the laws of nature which must also be the laws of 
the Creative Force. Mystical or occult creativeness depends on 
the degree to which we transcend the principles which gov- 
ern the Creative Force. This transcending process develops 
us automatically as repeatedly stated. We cannot expand our 
own creative powers without expanding the Creative Force 
within us and our conception of it. We cannot develop a re- 
ligion cf the future without transcending what religion has 
generated through calling forth reaction. Thus we enter the 
realms of the religion of the future through better under- 
standing of the religion of the past, because we need some- 
thing pathological and spiritually bewildering in order to ex- 
ercise and increase our transcending occult powers. All effort 
exerted in transcending any psychic phenomena evokes and 
increases our own occult or mystical powers. All such tran- 
scending of phenomena which deal with creative processes 
serves to stimulate the psychic entity, thereby promoting 
aestheticism by advancing our feeling into life and nature. On 
the other hand all non-transcending dwelling on extramundane 
and symbolical imagination leads to the reverse, and has an 
anti-gesthetical effect. It is always with an increase of asstheti- 
cal powers with which we have to deal in order to increase 
various occult powers which vary in diverse individuals. All 
religion makes for destruction of inborn and original individu- 
ality and its higher or spiritual creativeness. The principle of 
the Creative Force is of aesthetical nature which leads in time 
to an sesthetical Weltanschauung, — an sesthetical appercep- 
tion of the universe. 

We see thus that our psychic entity is that part within us 
which makes for all spiritual and spirit expressions, and con- 
sequently for freedom of self expression through direct psychic 
appeal. Religion, as it will develop henceforth, must com- 
prise a science capable of interpretation by positive psychic 
laws, and will lead to an art which speaks directly and affirma- 
tively to the psyche. The negative intent of the religion! of 
the past resulted in a religion of negative concepts and must 



54 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

be replaced by a religion and an art with positive and affirma- 
tive purpose. It is therefore evident that the religion of the 
future recognizes only a positive Creative Force with positive 
principles, and strives to develop a Free and Positive as well 
as Universal Science, and its logical and suitable counterpart 
in Art. 



VI 

WHAT IS MYSTICISM, AND WHAT IS A 
MYSTIC? 

Mysticism is today a positive psychology and the mystic is 
a psychist, that is a person with Insight into higher creative 
processes. , The aim of all such positive, constructive or prac- 
tical psychology is dual: to interpret psychical, mystical or 
spiritual phenomena and to discover educational principles 
which lead to the development of such properties and qualities 
as have a reconciliatory recuperative and restoring or healing 
effect. Its aim is therefore to develop Insight — the result of 
well-developed power of Feeling into life and nature and into 
creative processes in general. The development of such Feel- 
ing has a positive generative and re-creative effect. Thus mys- 
ticism as a science deals with the development of various modes 
of creative and re-creative expressions and especially with 
mystical or psychic art expression, besides other expressions of 
soulful life. All these various terms such as psychic, spiritual, 
mystical, occult, magic and others have accumulated through 
interchange of language of different people, but all aim at the 
interpretation of manifestations of psychic origin. They all 
represent spiritual or spirit expressions, but as religion or 
spiritual language of any people has developed along with its 
art expression, and as mysticism and mystical art is developed 
out of Reaction against archaic religions and their art, we must 
apply to expressions of art the term mysticism proper. We 
have, however, come to perceive that all creation is funda- 
mentally of the same nature as true art creation, and that re- 
creative acts are truly religious acts, since we have developed 
practical mysticism. Creative psychics deals with practical 



WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 55 

mysticism as exercised in all walks of life. We enter an age 
of practical mysticism. This practical mysticism has always 
existed, although not recognized; and credit has heretofore 
been given to the non-creative class while these have in reality 
drawn all their better inspiration from the creative class. 

Art expressions represent fundamentally speaking the spir- 
itual utterances of the people, just as every day language is 
the means of interchange of its workaday thinking. Every 
separate people and race has developed its own spiritual con- 
ception, mode of expression and view of life and creation, just 
as every climatic, geographical, geological and physiological 
condition has manifested in the formation of character inevi- 
table to it. With the interchange of the respective expressions, 
opinions, ideals and ideas the people of one country become bet- 
ter informed than any single nation or race can inform 
itself alone. Better facilities for travel and communication 
have enriched our means of expression. Intellectual Greece 
promulgated our intellectual scientific language, and we have 
actually accomplished a separation of intellectual from aesthet- 
ical concepts, which earlier peoples had but dimly sensed. We 
have become more dual individually as we have progressed 
beyond our extramundane religion. Never before have the 
lines between the life and the religion of any peoples been so 
distinctly drawn. 

Development of psyche requires specialized study, practice 
and experiment, quite apart from, however assisted by, the 
intellectual urge. Neither religion nor scholarship are 
equipped to form, guide or direct our psyche aright. It is not 
to reform our schools and religion but to revolutionize them, 
and whatever the outcome, the effort we exert in revolutioniz- 
ing our perverse teaching must result in a sprightlier Insight. 
The energy so devoted enhances our critical transcending pow- 
ers, enabling us to penetrate to the causes of our pagan civ- 
ilization which are rooted in abnormal psychic development. 

As the terminology of science allows us more candid dis- 
cussion of creative and procreative processes, which the con- 
ventional language and culture discountenances and would 
fain prohibit, it represents a universal language and universal 
means of exchange of opinions and ideas. It is more a free 



56 crp:ative psychics 

thought language which the forces of reaction dare not boldly 
curb while they do not hesitate to abridge freedom of press and 
speech when couched in conventional language, in the expecta- 
tion that thought is to be denied freedom of expression by such 
abridgement. 

With the expanding universalization, or socialization, of a 
language of scientific expression, a more discriminating 
analysis and a higher criticism evolves. The "average man" 
takes less for granted and demands cogent support for every 
dogma. Clashes of opinion and conviction no longer center 
about personalities, nor erudite interpretations of ancient docu- 
ments, with their baseless hostilities; but partake of the spirit 
of friendly emulation, which, whatever else the outcome, 
arouses those engaged from lethargic indifference and conven- 
tional thinking, and contributes toward a subconscious, or 
psychic, development that opens the mind to the modern or 
emancipatory aspects of mysticism. 

A positive science of psychics gives to old and misused 
terms a new and a more cogent valuation. Such words as 
mystical, spiritual, occult, aesthetical and magical, formerly 
employed as signifying manifestations of an anti-natural char- 
acter, have been rescued from the captivity to which super- 
stition had subjected them, and have become useful as denot- 
ing phases of understanding in consonance with experience. 

Mysticism, as it is here termed, has its origin in ancient 
transcendentalism, and its connotations have followed the 
changes that religion has undergone. It represents a nult 
of God of Unity instead of a religious God which is opposed 
by a devil. It is essentially a cult of reconciliation of opposing 
concepts — a reconciliation that arrives at ''organic fusion and 
growth" of which we do not know the process, but cognize the 
principles which lead to its development. It is therefore mys- 
tical just as the electric current or gravity is mystical. Such 
mystical cult of reconciliation has been developed since ancient 
times by necessity because of the exaggeration of a religious 
devil cult and differences between and within diverse religions. 

Arising differences of opinion as regards creation and 
creator resulted in schisms in different religions. Every such 
schism represents the turning point of extra-mundane religion 



WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 57 

to a positive religion, and a revulsion against extra-mundane 
reverence. This is a necessary revolution because every excur- 
sion into the extra-mundane fictitious causes greater com- 
plexity of opinion, and therefore a reaction and a return to cis- 
worldly affairs. Thus every cult of other-worldly powers leads 
in time back to a cult of human creativeness and divinity of 
humanity itself. The fact is that our attention is drawn away 
by sheer necessity from fictitious speculations into practical 
channels in order to reconcile what had led to hostility. We 
come therefore today back to a cult of reality of life and 
existence instead of a cult of speculations. An extra-mundane 
religious cult cannot solve, but serves rather to increase quar- 
rels, and we come back from a cult of "There and Then" to 
a cult of "Here and Now." Such mystical cult of reconcilia- 
tion is the result of Insight into creative processes, and is a 
cult of human creativeness, which is necessitated through the 
increase of caste and class distinctions and extends to every 
walk of life, and is caused through reaction against supersti- 
tion. It will in time take preference over extra-mundane fic- 
titious religion altogether. Mysticism is no longer religious 
mysticism as in the past, but we come upon the becoming 
mystic in every walk of life. 

The mystic of today is the artist with a positive philosophy 
of life engendered by a deep insight into life and nature, an 
insight of psychic nature, which by necessity demands a crit- 
ical enlightening of the intellect as well. Mysticism is an 
evolution of insight through revolution of one's personality, 
thinking and character, which represents broadening of vision 
and indicates radical changes in one's thinking. Our usual 
vision and thinking is by necessity conventional and habitual, 
and being largely influenced by symbolism, is imposed on us 
by hypnotism. 

The mystic, as conceived in the recent past, is both artist 
and philosopher, and the inborn personality and originality, 
and the path of his development determines whether he is a 
mystical artist or a philosophic mystic. Each has arrived at 
mysticism through a positive philosophy of life. It may be 
said of all of them that "their art expression is their religion," 
just as the practical mystic's creativeness is his highest reli- 



58 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

gious expression. All mystics have this in common : that they 
are " social universalists" as it were. They are revolutionists 
necessarily, being in a constant state of reaction against 
dogmatism, formalism and arbitrary abstractiveness. To com- 
pile a list of contemporary mystics is a sheer impossibility, 
for your practical mystic does not burst into prominence in 
an age where spiritual things are still regarded as other- 
worldly things, and are separated from life and human 
creativeness. 

In every age we find the mystic in the making — dominated 
more or less by vestiges of indoctrinated training, but aspir- 
ing always to surmount what limits the understanding to the 
palpable and tangible, and soaring into realms not subject to 
the limitations of a lower dimensional habit of investigation, 
bringing back rich booty for the intellect to play with, after 
its timidities had been allayed, and later — often very much 
later — to work with, to achieve with — and then, still later, to 
claim as all its own. 

The revolt against the incongruities imposed upon the 
human spirit by the dilapidated conventionalism of a discred- 
ited theology is not to be stayed. The decrepit survivals of 
fear-inspired theologies are everywhere giving way before the 
cheery and blithesome joyousness of humanity coming into 
its own; coming with a new appreciation of the boundlessness 
of its inheritance of possibilities; coming with song and love 
and play and laughter — with its capacity for discerning the 
whimsical, the sportive, the incongruous — with a sense of 
humor too long suppressed, as other clamors of the spirit have 
been suppressed. 

In every age, in every race, in every land there have been 
those sturdy pioneers of mysticism who dauntlessly rebelled 
against a rigid conformity to current ideals — or the lack of 
them. It is not to be denied that intellect has played an im- 
portant role in man's development. The mystic does not ab- 
jure those faculties that derive their exercise from dealing 
with what has already been accomplished, but he brings into 
operation a capacity for insight into what has not yet been 
achieved. He accepts the entire endowment of the intellect, 
but instead of stopping there, it is there he begins. From 



WHAT IS A MYSTIC ? 59 

that base he projects the tentacles of psyche, giving free rein 
to an intrepid inquisitiveness. Awe in the presence of the 
mystical affects both the intellect and the feeling. The intel- 
lect, when unsupported by mysticism, is overawed by what 
it has not fathomed, and interprets his attitude in terms of 
fear. The mystic, on the other hand, while conscious of awe, 
recognizes in the awe-inspiring an invitation to explore, a 
call to comradeship with those higher forces that yield their 
secrets to the loving and the daring. The intellect makes a 
merit of excluding what is not yet known, tardily and grudg- 
ingly accepting what feeling has learnt to wrest from the 
whilom unknown, and meanwhile dismissing rather cavalierly 
and arrogantly as unknowable whatever itself has not yet 
been adventurous enough to penetrate. 

Mysticism, without disparaging the negative merit of intel- 
lectual dogmatism, recognizes the virtues of the intellectual 
processes, but observes that it is only in copartnership with, 
and under the guidance of psychic insight, that the intellect 
becomes efficient, Indeed, copartnership is scarcely the suit- 
able term to describe the conjunction, for, after all, it cannot 
escape the perception that it is the instinctive, the intuitional, 
the feeling faculty within us that dominates. It may rather 
be said that it is the feeling that seeks, that aspires, that per- 
forms, while the intellect is content to appraise. It is the 
scales on which the miner weighs his dust after the arduous 
labor of panning out the metal. 

Mysticism implies and necessitates ''freedom of self ex- 
pression." It is "feeling become articulate." As the age is 
eager to discover or discern a mystic it is fitting here that a 
few be named, without undertaking to compile a list, were 
that task possible. Ever since Rousseau. Europe has been in 
the throes of producing mystics, but such development is hin- 
dered and suppressed through extreme reactionary forces. 
Nevertheless the list of men who have developed deep insight 
is legion. Maurice Maeterlinck is an outstanding living ex- 
ample. The elder Tolstoy was a mystic in whom the mysticism 
indigenous to earlier religions was blended with that of the 
emancipation, and the tendency to symbolism so predominated 
in him as to curb his effectiveness, a condition quite logical in 



60 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

a period of transition; just as Oliver Lodge and some others 
permitted themselves to be swayed by an inclination to 
spiritism. 

What is the developing of a positive science of psychics 
other than the indices of an age of mysticism, when this science 
once becomes fully socialized and common property? It has 
remained for America to produce practical mysticism by af- 
fording the fecund environment for a luxuriant flowering of 
the dawning religion of the future and its concomitant asethet- 
icism — its new courage and its new faith, and its acceptance 
of the beckonings of the unseen forces as less a forbidding 
challenge than an alluring invitation. 

The outstanding determination of the resolute colonists 
who formed the republic was to tolerate no aristocracy, 
theocratic or political. There have been occasional veerings 
that bear the aspect of reaction, especially in the indifference 
to the presumptions of its land forestallers, but there has been 
no reversal and there will not be. Whatever the temporary 
hindrances, America is still the land of freest opportunity, 
and while obstructions to entire freedom are encountered, 
these are certain to be removed. A people that have once de- 
clared that they will not permit an invasion of life and liberty 
nor trammels on the pursuit of happiness may suffer some re- 
strictions for a while, but they have only to become aroused 
to awareness to defend themselves against encroachment. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman are conspicuous 
exponents of mystical insight. Thomas Edison is a practical 
exemplification of the creative principle of mysticism. Henry 
Ford is a most remarkable mystical mind manifesting in a 
practical adaptation of the compensatory principle by supply- 
ing the age with what it needs instead of abusing it. 

John Dewey, the pioneer preacher of the American move- 
ment towards civilization and education through play and 
creativeness, is one whose work will do much for the impend- 
ing emancipation. 

In ancient times such mystics were regarded by the masses 
as gods or demi-gods after they had been "discovered" by the 
cognoscenti. , The recognition of the practical mystic as the 
genius of the age has animated in America numerous indi- 



WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 61 

vidual educationary endeavor in that direction. Such attempts 
are still hampered and obstructed by our self-satisfied arrogant 
educators. All effort towards abolishing unapplied teaching 
and against the hypnotizing influence of preaching increases 
automatically the psychic creative powers. The modern mys- 
tic is a practical man of affairs and altogether represents the 
creative genius of the age. Independent positive journalism 
is one of the greatest assets of our age which lessens the 
weight of the millstones which the past has fastened upon us. 
Our independent magazines, for which America is justly 
record-breaking, and which present all sides to the public 
which seeks in enlightenment its salvation, are of highest gen- 
eral value. There are others which are especially devoted to 
phychic insight while some are striving in their several ways 
to deal with various aspects of emancipation of humanity from 
the bondage of the past. We cannot get our insight from a 
few sources and not from old books, but alone from living 
thought produced by the most forward striving minds. Civic, 
economic, social and political matters must be given their 
share as well as what pertains to the life of the spirit and its 
expression in aesthetism and art. 

The evolution of mysticism has not escaped the invasion 
of the mountebank and the charlatan, but such impostors have, 
quite unwittingly, served to spur to genuine endeavor such 
as are capable of developing critical and transcending power 
instead of relying on a shallow belief in make-believe. There 
has been exerted along with religion a prodigious influence to 
arouse these powers through stimulating curiosity and inquis- 
itiveness. The adroit priest in ancient Egypt who veiled 
" Nothing " is as admirable as the Buddhist priest and Shinto 
guardian who places a mirror or a crystal to represent the 
Unknown, and leaves all to the imagination of those who really 
seek truth. Oracles, clair-voyance, clair-audience, clair- 
sentience, telepathy and the many other psychic phenomena 
all fall under the realms of mysticism, and the abuse and im- 
position which are practiced side by side with true develop- 
ment need deter none from developing his distinct psychic 
power which every individual possesses without exception. 
Neglect of the genuine, because of the presumptions of the 



62 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

spurious is the result of auti-social teachings which prevents 
"feeling to become articulate." Our spiritual or psychic 
senses are instinctive extensions of our objective senses, or, 
to state it in another way, all our objective senses are only 
further means created by our psyche to inform itself. 

We must therefore regard religions of the past as the ini- 
tial attempt to solve the riddle of life and creation by experi- 
ment and reflex but not as the final solution, because all such 
early effort must lead into the extra-mundane and to conven- 
tional habit of thought and custom, but not to exercise our 
own creativeness. The Creative Force is not a habit-forming 
force, but just the reverse, that it : a force which divides itself 
into dual contra-distinguished forces in order to ' ' create some- 
thing Higher out of the Lower." It is thus a Re-creative 
Force and an experimenting force. It divides itself in order 
to create,' and unites to re-create, and what cannot unite again 
must destroy itself. There must always arise mystical minds 
which through developing Insight into the true nature of Life 
and Creation produce that necessary Common Understanding 
which leads to constructive evolution instead of a destructive 
revolution. The examples of Sodom and Gommorrah, of 
Babylon and Rome teach us the lesson that life and nature 
exert a self-evolving experimenting power which tries to solve 
its problems in its own way, which we can "feel," and if it 
does not succeed we destroy ourselves in order that mankind 
can repeat the experiment again and again until we are taught 
the necessary lessons. Every effort towards greater separate- 
ness must be met by a greater striving after Unity, and the 
mystic tries to solve the problem the age demands for its 
emancipation. 

Emancipation means thus the pronouncing of a cult of what 
had been neglected or suppressed, which must follow as the 
necessary means of restoring the balance which had been lost. 
A cult of Cooperation must follow a cult of Separateness, a 
cult of Externalization must lead to a cult of Insight, which 
brings a higher conception and representation of the Infinite. 
The more we turn away from nature, the more must the suc- 
ceeding cult center on the simple and demonstrably relative. 
A cult of the male must be followed by a higher cult of the 



WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 63 

feminine. A cult of sex suppression must be followed by a 
higher cult of sex-evolvement. The further we have gone into 
the negative, abstract and unapplied, the stronger must be 
the striving after the applied and synthetic. The return move- 
ment represents always a revolution and a reaching out to a 
higher plane of consciousness and expression. 

We can thus clearly recognize from collective experiences 
East and West, that the Creative Force itself is a Principle, and 
by its very nature must be Impersonal and Neutral, and is 
represented to our conception as the World-Soul, of which our 
individual soul is just a part which we have to increase. We 
evolve the Creative Force in the measure as we evolve our- 
selves. Our soul represents the God in Unity while our dual 
planes represent it in action. We must develop our dual planes 
in order to develop soul and thus increase our stabilizing soul 
as well as the world-soul. Soul represents the gyrator, so to 
say, which draws the divided dual effort together to united 
re-creative action again and again, and the result is "organic 
fusion and growth." True art, like all true creativeness, is 
the result of this uniting of the intellect and psyche to unite 
and re-create through reflex what the separate planes have 
prepared through experiment. We come thus back to regard 
all true creation as Art Creation, and have to interpret art in 
order to understand life and creation. True art is essentially 
the representation of the infinite Creative Force or God, and 
must represent it in all created objects in a manner which re- 
veals the workings of it. True art must have a recuperative 
or mystical power which has a restoring and re-creating effect 
on the mind of the beholder. Without going further into the 
nature of such art at present I quote Schelling's definition of 
Beauty from Tolstoy's "What Is Art?": "Beauty is the rep- 
resentation of the Infinite in the Finite. And the chief char- 
acter of a product of art is unconscious infinity. Art is the 
Union of the subjective and the objective of nature and reason, 
of the unconscious with the conscious. And therefore art is 
the highest means of knowledge." 

How this art creativeness and art consciousness may be de- 
veloped must be left to further publications. What I wish to 
point out before closing is to submit to the reader the follow- 



64 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

ing consideration. The Creative Force, which art has to rep- 
resent in all created objects, must bring to bear relationship 
of these objects to each other. The Creative Force in re- 
creative action, which we alone can represent, reveals itself to 
us always as contradistinguished duality and pairs of duality, 
as in male and female or animal and plant. The ancient 
transcendentalists teach us that "life is the result of a recon- 
ciliation of pairs of opposites." Plant nature is the psychical 
complement to animal life just as woman is the psychical 
complementary part to man. Our psyche represents the plant 
self within us, which is most favorably influenced by nature. 
Plant nature is next to love and sex expression the highest 
psychic enlightening power. The duty of both is "to form and 
inform our feeling self" and thus produce insight. The fact 
is that "truly relative art with nature" alone can lead to 
the fundamentals which underly all true art expressions and 
must form the Insight for all art development. We cannot 
produce true art without practicing an art "truly relative to 
nature," or what must be called "a high art of Landscape 
Gardening," because verdant and flowering nature and the 
fruitful hillsides, slopes and valleys alone provide us with such 
"living plastic material" on which we can form and inform 
our Psychic Insight. Only through such complementary prac- 
tice is the artist enabled to produce highest art creations. 

God, the Creative Force, the World-Soul, is Unity, Harmony, 
a divine Self-Unconscious equipoise. In action it is Sex Force, 
the two complementary parts composing the united Allness. 
The dual forces comprising the Whole, enter our understand- 
ing in different aspects — one, the Restricting, the other the 
Enlightening, force; or, as the Useful and the Beautiful re- 
spectively, the first in this duality being what religion has called 
the Positive or God, the other Bad, or Evil. In other parallel 
aspects the duality appears as masculine and feminine, or as 
animal and plant life, or as social and aesthetical respectively, 
the former embracing the civic and economic, the latter the 
spiritual or artistic. 

Thus the masculine, the animal, social, civic and economic 
aspect of the duality stands for the useful, restricting or re- 
sisting intellectual power, and the feminine, aesthetical, artistic 



WHAT IS A MYSTIC? 65 

for the beautiful or enlightening phychic part of the duality. 
The latter being the inherent and inborne higher representa- 
tive of the ' ' Unity, ' ' the former the part separated to increase 
reciprocal experience and thus as necessary catalytic Irritant 
to regenerativeness and for further enlightenment for the fem- 
inine or psychic part within. All actual regeneration is per- 
formed by the feminine or psychic within us, which is not 
absent in the male but overdominated by the intellectual part. 
In the feminine sex the Psyche is predominant. 

It is by such symbolical or abstract conceptions as God and 
Devil that religions have distorted the meaning and thwarted 
an understanding of these counterparts of Unity. Theology 
exalted the Intellect as the Good and decried Psyche as Evil, 
thereby degrading the Feminine as sinful and the sex-impulse as 
vile. In mathematics, in chemistry, applied electricity and the 
like, the religious and algebraic symbols and signs, such as posi- 
tive and negative, plus and minus, have already found revalua- 
tion in a more valid interpretation, and the positive science of 
Psychics shares with all applied sciences the higher enlighten- 
ment due to this advance. Mysticism too, like theology, postu- 
lates dualism, but instead of seeking to suppress either aspect 
of the duality, gives equal and divine importance to each. The 
suppression of Instinct — as contradistinguished from Intellect — 
served really to emphasize that which was condemned, thus 
accentuating the very manifestations against which it most 
eloquently inveighed. Sex-precocity, for instance, psychic and 
especially infantile sexual trauma, polymorphous perverse and 
all such abnormal states which psychology comprises under the 
collective name of infantilism of sexuality, prevail only among 
peoples to whom the suppressive endeavors of an inverted mora- 
listic thology have been represented as the acme of virtue. The 
requisite balance can be restored only by such higher recogni- 
tion as increases consciousness, for it springs from a restoration 
of consciousness which had been lost. The Intellect, being the 
restricting power (owing to the fallibility and limitation of 
our objective senses) must recede from its predominance in 
our culture and social life, and accede to Psyche its proper 
status as the higher Enlightening power. 

Primeval mystical ages were not contaminated with subse- 



66 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

quently-developed condemnation of sex-instinct. Among the 
ancient Japanese and the earlier Scandian races, and others, 
the equality of the feminine was never denied; and we, in the 
modern revolution against medieval monastic asceticism, are 
only returning to a higher consciousness of a fundamental truth, 
after having developed the Intellect far above the stages at- 
tained by the ancients. 

But we have reached the line of demarcation where the 
power of the intellect ends. Many of our most advanced phi- 
losophers and scientists have clearly recognized the presence 
of such a limitation, but few of them have as yet developed 
sufficient Insight into creative processes as to be able to cross 
the Divide into the realms of the mystical. It is for them to 
develop mysticism in order to clarify their understanding, just 
as the artist must do who aspires to produce higher art. The 
power of expression evolves quite spontaneously through the 
emancipation of the psychic nature from the bondage of the in- 
tellect. 

In the human species the Female is the higher representa- 
tive of the Creative Force, as plant life is relatively more highly 
important than animal life. Primordial life was bi-sexual. 
There was first plant-animal before animal life was segregated 
from the duality, just as the male is a segregation from a unified 
sex duality. Animal life cannot exist without the needful 
Vitamines or primeval love-food which the animal cannot pro- 
duce unaided. 

This higher creativeness incident to the feminine principle 
enters our consciousness as "psychic enlightenment." Nature- 
cult and sex-cult are expressions the development of which is 
of highest importance to our own creativeness. They are of 
psychic importance first of all, and the cult of the male is of 
intellectual importance. 

Cognizance of these relative "importances" and the constant 
tendency toward equipoise between them, which is "in the 
nature of things" and will maintain itself if not subjected to 
illogical hindrance and suppression, leads to the understanding 
that there is nothing really evil in nature or in any phase of 
the creative process. When we relegate to the category of Evil 
any aspect of the relation we deny ourselves the benfits that 



HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 67 

a clearer understanding would confer. We get unsatisfactory 
results from suppression and then seek a remedy in further sup- 
pression. Starting with a cult of "evil" we proceed to a cult 
of Suppression, and the latter instead of discouraging the 
former only serves to drive it into subnormal perversion. 
Necessarily this silly canceling contest becomes useful by its 
inefficacy and futility. It compels an inevitable transvaluation 
that applies the lever to a higher normal state in which Feeling, 
or Psyche, becomes more affirmatively articulate. 



VII 
HOW TO PRODUCE THE MYSTIC 

It is only in recent years that any purposeful effort has 
been made to teach practical mysticism and psychic develop- 
ment. To this task no insignificant number of profound 
analysts have earnestly devoted themselves; and a growing 
number of publications is enlisted in the work. Their aim is 
to arouse psychic power and use it as the lever which increases 
human creativeness in manifold directions, quantitatively and 
qualitatively, in opposition to suppression by brute force. The 
effort was not the outcome of organized educational endeavor 
of long privileged standing, but has come in opposition to it 
and out of individual effort against the abuses of privileged 
and governmentally subsidized schools maintained to uphold 
privileges which are anti-social, anti-natural and " anti-Christ- 
like. " Creative psychics comes as a reaction against the prac- 
tice of branding human flocks like cattle in early youth, as fixed 
irrevocably to certain castes, creeds and orders; and against 
the discarding of the best and spiritually richest into the waste 
heap. It has come from those "people of affairs" "who en- 
deavor to make an art out of their life's work." It has come 
through sympathetic understanding and conceptual inspira- 
tional individualized insight. It has come through aroused 
"cathartic subjective" power and out of reaction against the 
hypnotization of humanity and suppression of subjective power. 



68 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

It has come through the instinctive emotional desire to express 
the deepest unconscious instincts through transcending to the 
"gist of things," and to the mystical occult significance of 
seemingly insignificant intuitive discernment. It has come 
through the active manipulation of human matter. It has come 
through the inborne desire in humanity to come into "sub- 
jective telepathic contact and intercourse" with other lives, 
with all nature and the cosmos. 

Mysticism in the past was caused through interplay of op- 
posing concepts, ideals and opinions that seemed irreconcilable, 
and the same still holds true today. Never was the mystic wel- 
come by the ruling class because feeling and its expression was 
feared by those who had been acclaiming the intellect as the 
god, stigmatizing psyche or feeling as evil and of the devil. 

Until very recent times the career of the mystic was shad- 
owed by the tragedies of the pyre, the cross and the gibbet. 
This was to be expected, for nothing is so calculated to arouse 
resentment as the employment of power that transcends the 
understanding of those who have become enfeebled by the over- 
cultivation of the weakest side of humanity and all life. The 
plant does not develop it at all, because its subjective or psychic 
entity is wholly predominant. The plant is the unconscious 
servant of animal and human life. Even the animal has little 
use for intellect. Humanity alone has developed intellect in 
a remarkable degree, and it had to sacrifice the psyche to bring 
intellect to its over-exalted station. Quite naturally this one- 
sided development reaches a limit, and the restriction imposed 
upon human progress through the intellect leads to an awaken- 
ing of the powers of the psyche. The child is not born with a 
developed intellect but with a strongly pronounced psyche or 
feeling self which however cannot express itself except in im- 
agination and pretense. It is this psychic power of imagination 
and make belief which is responsible for all our religions and 
arts and advance in creativeness in the past, nor may we expect 
that this psychic power (and its products) can be normal from 
its inception. The normal can only come from reaction against 
the abnormal and it is always a higher normal which must 
supplant the abnormal. The new-born child represents the un- 
conscious healing and regenerating power of the creative force 



HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 69 

or God most fully, but the child has to go through a process of 
transformation aided through experiment, practice and reflex, 
in order to develop its divine healing and regenerative power 
to such an extent that it can, when developed, emancipate hu- 
manity from its errors and doubts, and reconcile what divides 
humanity. Just as the child has a message of reconciliation 
so has the mystic the same message only in different degree and 
mode of expression. The power of both the child and the 
mystic rests on " direct appeal to feeling and the direct or 
psychic apperception of truth." The mystic is a child at heart 
with the simple and elemental power of direct apperception of 
truth as it is exercised by the feminine nature instead of the 
detached principles or abstract propositions of the masculine 
intellectual mind. It is the opposition which distinguishes the 
"man of action" from the "man of thought." 

"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" 
for the psychic. He learns to transcend such limitations. It is 
less important that we get man out of prison than the prison 
out of man. Formerly every estate was protected by stout 
walls. Later less formidable fences surrounded the homes of 
the people. Gradually the height of these barriers was reduced, 
and of late a parapet of any kind is a rare sight in our cities. 
We had learned to transcend fences long before we ceased 
building them. And so, too, we are encompassing the mind of 
childhood afid of youth with fewer and less sturdy restrictions, 
as we are becoming emancipated from the old theologic dogma 
that "all that pleases must be vile." Nevertheless the tyranny 
of habit will continue building intellectual fences, and each 
succeeding generation will learn to apply the emancipatory 
principles that mysticism promulgates, and will transcend all 
that limits humanity. We may imagine with what zeal the 
Chinese built their massive wall, but the imagination balks at 
the possibility of a like undertaking of the west to build an 
intellectual Chinese wall. We have been taught to regard the 
Far Eastern races as "inferior peoples," yet it cannot be denied 
that the Japanese in particular have developed a remarkable 
power of transcending and reconciling the antinomies of the 
philosophies, religions and the religious arts of China and India 
with their own. To transcend such antipodal tendencies is the 



70 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

task and function of the mystic. Because of their quaintness 
and unique peculiarity of charm alone the Chinese and Japa- 
nese arts are an indispensable means to exercise transcendental 
powers, insight and vision, but their extrinsic value lies in the 
fact that they are the only real antipodal spiritual products 
which humanity has produced in opposition to western spirit- 
uality. There is also much of antipodal quality in East Indian 
religion and philosophy, but not in high art. All exercise of 
transcending powers must include Japanese Shinto belief and 
its high art of landscape painting and landscape gardening. 
Shinto represents a religion and a religious art with nature 
just as India and the West has a religious art with man. The 
transcending of the high arts of both the personal western 
and the impersonal eastern conception alone can create that 
necessary complete vision of the whole of divinity. We stand 
in this age at the threshold of "that far-off divine event" when 
at length "the East and West shall meet" — and the common 
point of contact is destined to be the conjunction, without 
obliteration of either, of art ideals that, however far at any 
time apart have been constantly converging. 

Mysticism, like life and creation, is a reconciliation of con- 
gruous opposites — the reassembling of counterparts — the meta- 
psychic mating of the achievements of the intellectual facul- 
ties with their transcendental relativities on the psychic plane. 
Among the essential factors in the cultivation of a mystic are : 
Prenatal predisposition — not alone of the immediate parents — 
(the maternal factor predominating) but of an ancestry in 
which the emancipatory tendency has been progressive, largely 
through transfusion of blood and interchange of thought. 
Stimulation of the critical and self-analytic processes in early 
life, not necessarily by cultivation, for these processes are 
spontaneous in all sentient beings, but rather by refraining 
from suppressing or discouraging them when they manifest in 
the growing child. To answer frankly the naive question of 
the aspiring mind of childhood as it comes into perplexing con- 
tact with what to outward appearances are antipodal tenden- 
cies helps the child to find reconciliations of divergent opinions, 
ideals, and convictions, whereby it develops nature's finer 
forces as these strive to come to growth in his consciousness. 



HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 71 

With such a foundation the child-mind develops so that 
later in life it becomes constantly less difficult to transcend the 
fundamental principles of antipodal religions and philosophies 
as well as their respective art expression; and to develop its 
own philosophy and at the same time its own inborne expres- 
sion in conduct and art — that is its "religious expressions in 
actions. ' ' 

The mystic or psychic nature in man is aroused through 
an awakening of enlightening critical aptitudes which set the 
psychic motor into action to draw from invisible channels that 
increased energy which makes him produce higher quality with 
greater facility. A critical enlightening fact at the right time 
and opportunity, the nature of which has been obscured to 
him or suppressed, may be all that is necessary to connect the 
switch with the unseen forces latent in the individual, which, 
when aroused, are self-healing and self-regenerative. The in- 
terchange of children of all ages, and of teachers between dif- 
ferent nations, races and classes, the interchange of children 
between town-living and country-dwelling people contribute 
to educational development. Educational progress does not 
come from the study of reverence and textbooks but through 
an awakening out of the illusion of desocialized and denatured 
value, just as it comes with the release from the fictitious and 
the acquiring of insight into the "truly relative to life and 
nature." 

Work with nature, gardening and flowers — a cult of scen- 
eries, trees and plants, leads to mysticism. Mysticism is cre- 
ated by the poet and the singer. Religion is a worship of the 
intellect of man, and is created by the architect or the 
"builders mind." Both minds developed together and in har- 
mony lead to mystical insight and growth. The student's 
psychic development will be arrested unless he learns to prac- 
tice his critical transcending powers on all kinds of problems 
and conflicts : civic, social, economical as well as aesthetical and 
artistic. He must learn to react unconsciously against the 
abnormal and unnatural, and to draw lessons of a positive 
philosophy of life from his own life experiences and to draw 
them from little things and little happenings in order to be 
able to draw them also from big events. The arousing of the 



72 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

critical detective, inquisitive and experimental spirit assures 
self-reliance and self-development. Occasional radical changes 
in environments, surroundings and food helps to bring finer 
forces into action, which tend to further growth. 

The mystic gives to the intellectual faculty and its achieve- 
ments its proper valuation, but while never disparaging these 
he does not make the mistake of extravagant ascriptions to it. 
He makes the best use of the intellect, because he knows how 
to employ it in higher dimensional accord with insight, and in 
harmonious balance with love. He conceives and interprets 
the past in the light of the present, thus obtaining glimpses and 
visions of the future, which faculty the sophisticated habitual 
thinker lacks. 

He indulges his quickened critical powers of transcendental- 
ization discarding the outworn through transcending it. He 
does not hesitate to cast aside what had been useful but is no 
longer so. His feeling is not tinctured with the sentimentalism 
that treasures the tool that has served its purpose and can serve 
no longer; any more than nature preserves the shell in which 
the chick was housed when that shelter has been outlived; no 
more than the builder permits the scaffolding to stand when the 
edifice is completed. 

The development of the mystic has been suppressed in the 
past just as the child's mind has been fallaciously appraised 
and as has been the office and influence of the feminine nature. 
All this suppression calls for a higher valuation of things sup- 
pressed and an increased application of inherent human powers 
and forces. There is no difference between human love, sex 
love and love of the creative force or god, and between god 
creativeness, sexual creativeness and human creativeness. A 
cult with the human body and its physics must follow a hide- 
bound mistreatment and obstruction of physical growth just as 
a cult of athletics and team play must follow a cult of war 
and destruction, and a cult of creativeness a cult of abstinence 
of it. The new cult is always created unconsciously through 
birth of a new generation which, under the predestining influ- 
ence of the mother reacts unconsciously against the abnormal 
outworn cult and lays the foundation of a new one. The prob- 
lem is very clear when we consider cause and effect. The result 



HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 73 

of monastic and convent life finds its equivalent in bachelordom 
and prostitution, and a new cult of womanhood and childhood 
must lead the world out of anti-natural development, just as 
teamplay, rhythm and folk dancing, physical culture and 
dramatic social play must be unfolded in order to reconcile the 
deep distinctions which intercommunal, national and interna- 
tional materialistic brute strife has engendered. It is always 
the mystical spirit of an age which produces and enlarges such 
healing cults and exercises as lead to increased soulful life. 

To make the soul alive and active we must overcome fear 
and distrust, and thus create within ourselves a self-conscious- 
ness and self-will of psychic or "subjective" nature. A buoy- 
ant daring is indispensable to develop insight and vision which 
alone can form positive concepts and forthright expression of 
them. 

Who is to blame for the "hypnotizable and alcoholizable 
mob-spirit" that has long been manifest in society? Why 
blame anyone ? Why seek some convenient scapegoat that shall 
carry into the wilderness the burden of those silly antics we 
have learned to regard as our sins? Why brood in retrospect 
over the rugged steeps behind? Always loom higher peaks 
beyond, more torrential streams to cross — but by very reason 
of the pains of the pioneering we become hardier and more 
resolute to front what lies ahead. Undaunted and undismayed 
the mystic of our day draws new inspiration from what his 
precursors experienced, and what he has learned from their 
labors. 

And this the neophyte in mysticism must learn, not alone 
from what has gone before, but from the lessons of his daily 
observation, and what becomes to him increasingly clear as his 
insight develops, that the test of truth is liberty — that the say- 
ing "the truth shall make you free" connotes that what sup- 
presses and restricts the creative urge cannot be truth. As the 
creative force manifests in sex force, in love force and in art 
force it is for the mystic-in-the-making to practice these forces 
in their several aspects, without fear that the exercise of life- 
impressed creativeness on any plane, can be carried to a harmful 
excess. 

Mysticism, as the term is herein used, is applied psychics. 



74 CREATIVE PSYCHICS 

That the designation formerly attached to the inception of a 
primitive percept of psychic power need not move us to forego 
and discard a useful appellation. Mysticism, even in its earliest 
aspects, and despite its crudities and its "entangling alliances" 
with that body of primitive guesses that comprise ancient the- 
ologies, laid nevertheless quite a secure foundation for the 
science it has become. Indeed those alliances were at no time 
co-operative. In their closest relationships they never clotured 
the revolt of aestheticism against the subnormal and fear- 
begotten moralism of archaic religions. The early mystic, in 
common with the priest of his time, derived what influence he 
exercised from the proneness of the people to yield to the claims 
of awe. With this important difference, which is today more 
pronounced than ever, that while the awe inspired by the priest 
was instilled by fear, the awe to which the mystic surrendered 
was the awe of admiration. One saw in the environing phe- 
nomena only the evidences of angry and vengeful gods, to be 
appeased — the other the benign operation of a harmonious 
system to be comprehended. One a destructive power to be 
propitiated, the other a creative force to be understood. The 
respective influences of symbolism and aestheticism, of the 
clashing tendencies of a lop-sided intellectualism against the 
dualism in which the psychic and intellectual faculties were 
each assigned its appropriate station, have been treated in fore- 
going chapters, and are referred to here for the purpose of 
insisting that even from its groping origin mysticism has not 
veered from its emancipatory principles. 

Mysticism, or applied psychics, instead of adding to the 
realm of the mysterious, as the careless might infer, has quite 
the opposite office — that of revealing what had been hidden, of 
liberating Avhat had been shackled, of enlightening what had 
been obscured. It is the result of "satisfied curiosity." It 
takes the mystifying and bewildering out of the realms of the 
unknown and unseen and makes it positive, creative, regenera- 
tive and healing. Its mission is therefore the opposite of sym- 
bolism, which is caused through "unsatisfied curiosity." 

Mysticism manifests in "feeling become more highly articu- 
late." The mystic does not appeal to the crowd. It is not his 
concern whether those of his own generation understand him 



HOW TO PRODUCE A MYSTIC 75 

or not. His is a universal interpretation, a cosmic apperception, 
an aesthetical "Weltanschauung" entirely impersonal, individ- 
ually content with what advance humanity has achieved. 
Whether as an inventor, a constructor or an artist he is a' man 
of action inspired by a vision of what is to be ; wherein he dif- 
fers from those who, deriving their impetus from the past are 
content with the ephemeral applause of the present. 

Mysticism is the bringing of forces and energies into true 
creative relationship and represents an incarnating of spirits 
which had become dissociate and discarnate. Thus incarna- 
tion is application and mysticism is applied religion. The 
mystic artist like the inventor integrates and thus incarnates 
spirits, disintegrating at the same time automatically disso- 
ciated spirits which in their state of dissociation are harmful 
and are called evil spirits. There is no fundamental differ- 
ence between forces in life and in matter. In life these forces 
are more highly individualized, spiritualized and aesthetized 
for cooperation of bio-dynamic and bio-economic nature, that 
is for "symbiotic labor." The inventor harnesses the very 
same forces on the material plane, and brings them thus to 
application, which the mystic incarnates and thus applies. 
Applied forces are emancipated forces; nothing can be ef- 
ficient when wholly unapplied. The process of emancipation 
is a process of reincarnation, and represents an emancipation 
of finer forces from the restrictions which keep them from 
application. Mysticism represents thus an emancipation of 
humanity from education which keeps it indolent and ignorant 
of finer forces through unapplied and abstract teaching. It 
is applied God creativeness, the conscious development of the 
God within, and is in opposition to religious precepts which 
teaches abstinence from such divine creative power, substi- 
tuting praying for "doing," leaving to a fictitious God what 
one ought to do oneself with the help of God within, causing 
dependence through preaching fear and causing worship of 
dissociated spirits instead of integrating and applying them. 



Meditations and Reflections 



True religion is "healing of the spiritual mind, or the psyche" 
just as true philosophy is "healing of the objective mind or the intel- 
lect." True art is the product of organic fusion of a cleared intellect 
and a well-formed and informed psyche, and possesses highest heal- 
ing powers. 



The mother is the highest source and power for predestination 
and all that is wrong with our destiny and fate is caused by the 
masculine preoccupied and drifting bewildered mind. The whole uni- 
verse and all stellar constellation we have within us. There is nothing 
outside of Us which is not also within us, and our stellar constellation 
which destines our happiness and usefulness is always set right if our 
parents trust and believe in themselves. Every grave doubt in the 
minds of the parents must bring with it by necessity a wrong con- 
stellation which must be set right by the increased effort of the indi- 
vidual through acquiring higher wisdom and feeling: the law of com- 
pensation through reconciliation. 



All demand for stimulants and intoxicants originates in the sup- 
pression of psychic power and as means to open the threshold of the 
unconscious self. The excesses in the use of stimulants and intoxicants 
and their ill effects, the hypnotizable and alcoholizable mob spirit, 
will disappear with the depreciation of a cult of fear and dependence 
and of all those forces like militarism which make for fear, just as 
prostitution will disappear in the same degree. All our religious and 
philosophical dogmas, like all our laws, are made under the influence 
of alcohol, fear and dependence. 



On the coming into contact with and transcending the Feelings 
and Ideas of strangers and foreigners depends the arousing of our own 
critical powers and creative psychic development, because otherwise 
we do not even understand our own Feelings and Ideas, nor do we 
know ourselves. 



Creative Psychics is the art of divine or superhuman efficiency 
and the science of dynamic relationship. 



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Intuition and Revelations are the result of "aesthetically trained 
instinct." 



Psychic creativeness is unself-conscious creativeness or God 
creativeness and is the result of equipoise — an automatic harmonic 
poise — an effortless quiescence representing the reconciliation between 
Being and Becoming. 



True art production, like true religion ,and like true philosophy 
is the result of personal mental revolution, and like the latter pos- 
sesses healing powers. 



Symbolical and realistic art are the results of "inquisitiveness 
and curiosity unsatisfied and suppressed." 



There is no higher art than a truly relative art with flowering 
gardens and verdant landscapes, because it is susceptible of transcend- 
ing the limitations that are placed on all other arts and art expressions. 



What distinguishes a mystical, that is a re-creative art, from 
others, is that the Infinite is represented in re-generative action as: 
Force and Energy represented by Character; and Space and Time, 
symbolized in harmonizing Rhythm of Motion; subjective reality, rep- 
resented in a higher dimensional impersonal representation of objective 
reality; the Maker represented as a regenerative force, calling the 
spirit of Harmony and Common Understanding out of discord and 
intolerance. 



Religion of the future is developing through the orientation of the 
arts and the sciences by the principles of emancipation. 



Healing power, mental and psychic, is a manifestation of Feeling 
become active and articulate. 



Pathological psychic development is the result of obstructions to 
"Feeling seeking expression." Unless we develop the psychic exten- 
sion of the senses we invite disease, disorder, derangement, and from 
these arise Hate, terminating in destruction and self-destruction. 



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Japan and America are the only countries which during the last 
fifteen hundred years have produced an advance in religion through 
developing mental healing arts and sciences respectively. 



To become really religious one has to enjoy what beautiful has 
come out of all religions and must not adhere to a single creed. 



We cannot separate our conceptions of religion from our con- 
ceptions of life and nature, nor from our acts and art expressions 
and from our philosophy without necessitating a complete inner revo- 
lution and rebirth, and acquire through this a positive and affirmative 
religion and direct expression of truth in our actions, philosophy and 
art. 



Religion says: civic, social and economical affairs have nothing 
at all to do with spiritual things which are supposed to be extra 
mundane and other-worldly things. Creative, practical mysticism 
says: they have to do with it "all there is." 



Truth must be born anew every day. It can only come from 
reconciliation and organic fusion of opposing opinions, ideals and ideas, 
and thus represents a solution of seemingly unsolvable and unrecon- 
cilable differences, and an emancipation. 



There must always be minds willing to supply humanity with the 
"lever" which increases its power of creativeness manifold. This lever 
is "Enlightenment," which is also the Master Idea" of the Creative 
Force or God. There are two kinds of enlightenment: intellectual and 
psychic. The latter is Divine enlightenment. Sex enlightenment, sex 
expression are together with the intercourse with verdant flowering 
nature and landscape of the highest Divine enlightening importance. 



Humanity has created itself and has to raise itself higher through 
increasing its psychic power. 



The science of Emancipation connotes a process of discarding the 
chimerical, "unlearning" the maxims taught by intellectual fearsome- 
ness, and relying on the Regenerative principle; just as the art of 
Emancipation is the art of Regeneration. 



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The universe is governed by psychic laws, and the laws that 
govern our psychic plane and psychic phenomena in general govern 
also the Creative Force or God. 



The laws of psychic phenomena decree that all cults, culture and 
civilization which are based on exploitation and abuse must destroy 
themselves and give way to higher planes of cooperation. No creed 
can keep part of humanity in dependence and therefore in the gutter 
"without staying there itself." 



The law of reciprocation and retribution: All evolution of life and 
creation is reciprocal, that is symbio-genetic and psycho-genetic. It 
is reciprocal progressive differentiation and specialization for "evolu- 
tion through cooperation," the material law of gravity superseded by 
the spiritual law of reciprocity. 



Mysticism, like truth, implies and necessitates full freedom of self- 
expression, free speech and free press and as result free thought. 
All tragedies of nations, races and individuals are caused through sup- 
pression of mystical or psychic development — from ancient Egypt, 
Babylon and Greece down to our own great tragedy of a world war. 
All are caused essentially through suppression of Truth, which can 
only be revealed where press and speech are as free as the air and 
the sunlight. 



The principles of organic fusion and spontaneous creative action 
are the principles of self-creative evolution of life — of creation itself. 
They represent a reconciliation of opposites and therefore a revolution 
and a regeneration. They are at the root of all production of life true 
art and inventions alike which are the product of fecundation, gemma- 
tion and nourishment through unselfish love, with ultimate birth. 
Religion and high arts are by necessity originally products of the 
human male, but are ultimately destined to form parallels to the higher 
sex creativeness of the woman. But women will, when no longer denied 
Freedom and Equality, bring all these products to a much higher status 
than man can ever hope to bring them alone. No longer does an en- 
lightened woman believe in man's word "that she cannot understand 
his thoughts and actions." The fact is that she has been convinced 
"man himself did not know what he was talking about." 



True education means re-education just as true recreation means 
re-creation. 



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Evolvement means regeneration through involution, evolution and 
revolution. Mysticism is forward vision and implies involution and 
evolution in order to revolutionize backward, subnormal and intellectual 
vision. 



The national and the universal mind must develop together har- 
moniously. The national mind cannot evolve alone as it always reaches 
a climax beyond which it cannot evolve without complete revolution 
towards greater universalization. 



Mysticism represents an emancipation from a moral view of life 
and creation to an aesthetical one. 



Genius is the faculty of self -developed subjective — that is psychic — 
power to recognize through feeling into life and nature the intimate 
relationship of a series of facts and appearances which are closely re- 
lated to each other, which power the purely one-sided intellectually 
educated and the dogmatist lacks. The development of such spiritual 
or psychic power serves to bring into cognition principles that hereto- 
fore were hidden from us. Mysticism therefore begins where material 
laws and intellectual powers of understanding ends and aestheticism 
becomes expressed. Then is it that we recognize that life after death 
is a higher aesthetical state of life on earth just as life is a higher 
aesthetical state than matter, and just as true art is a higher aesthetical 
expression of reality where the supersensual organic laws are trans- 
gressed "aesthetically." In realistic and symbolical art on the other 
hand, just as in every living creature, tree, animal, man, the lines and 
forms are subject to geometrical laws which are only "organically" 
transgressed. The end of occidental fallacy that nature geometrizes 
is therefore at hand. It has dawned on the modern mind that only the. 
one-sided intellect geometrizes, just as we have come to see that his- 
tory only repeats itself when we teach the same archaic utterances 
as truth which our ancestors believed in. 



The West instituted baptism because bathing was considered a 
disgrace; the East never lost the feeling that water not only cleansed 
the body but also the soul. The East never produced a wholly ab- 
stract and unapplied religion. 



Free thought is impossible without free press and free speech. 






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The Duality of the Creative Force in action implies determinative 
relationship of contra-distinguished planes, with auto -catalytic re- 
action as the result, which latter is at the root of all organic fusion 
and growth. Catalysis is caused through production of love food 
which is produced by the creative processes of the contra- distinguished 
planes. This respective love food which appears to us partly as 
irritants and waste causes action and reaction. The laws of catalyse 
become more obvious in higher states of matter such as colloidal 
matter which produce sufficient irritants to prevent crystallization 
which crystals do not produce. All evolution of life is the result of 
such reaction against excess products, just as all human evolution is 
the result of reaction against what we call irritants and waste. Such 
reaction is of unconscious, that is psychic nature, and is at the root 
of all Self Suggestion towards Self Regeneration and self healing 
power. Such unconscious reaction is promoted through development 
of Aestheticism or Feeling and represents a reaction against the 
abnormal which is: the immoral, with the recognition of the Normal 
as result. Such unconscious reaction is the first step towards the 
disintegration of pathological impresses which otherwise do not be- 
come regenerated in our subjective plane but cause psyche-pathological 
growth. Unconscious reaction is therefore the necessary means for 
unconscious cerebration, organic fusion and mysticism in general, 
and promote highest self-healing power and the power to heal others. 
The plant is wholly subject to unconscious or psychic law and uncon- 
scious self-suggestion. Humanity has evolved voluntary and con- 
scious suggestion and impress of the intellect on the psyche either for 
promoting growth and healing, or for hypnotizing and perverting. 
Self Suggestion takes the place of praying in mysticism, restoring 
Self Reliance in place of fear and dependence. 



Cooperation is the greatest emancipating and healing power. 



The future will regard all so-called evil and sin as the inevitable 
result of a strong and wholesome inborne desire to exert oneself to- 
wards experience, reflex and reaction against our abnormal culture 
and civilization, and will lead all such effort to higher wholesome exer- 
tion and expression, as all so-called evil is destined by the Creative 
Force to be the "lever" with which to raise oneself to a higher state 
of consciousness. Religion believes: that right is right and wrong is 
wrong, and that the non-creative part of humanity is right; Mysticism 
regards the wrong only as a step to a higher conception of right if we 
transcend to its causes and recognize its true nature. Mysticism rec- 
ognizes thus that all what the non-creative part of humanity pro- 
duces is abnormal and immoral, furnishing the stimulus only, and 
arousing the sense of reaction in the creative part to create the higher 
normal out of thp abnormal. 



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te religious instinct in humanity is an inherent and inborne 
instinct for generative and regenerative balance and power, and pre- 
sents itself to us in "states of mind." Every change in religion is 
brought forth by a change of one state of mind into another. A mys- 
tical state of mind applies the help of inherent psychic power, and 
produces different expressions in acts and art, as symbolism which 
represents the product of an abstract state of mind. 

Every higher state of mind is created by transgression or tres- 
passing of the restrictions of the past, just as it is created through 
transgressions of man-made laws and even through transgressions of 
what we regard as laws of nature. 

Metaphysics is fundamentally the result of transgression of the 
intellect; metapsychics is caused through transgression of feeling. 
(All progress is caused through transgression into excess, bringing 
higher experiment, experience and expression.) All that is not physics 
in metaphysics is psychics, and metapsychics represents a truly rela- 
tive higher dimensional plane of consciousness. We must regard the 
fourth dimension and even further dimensional planes as higher 
dimensional states of mind, and not as expressions to be found in 
the material or physical world. But all effort spent in transgressing 
material and geometrical laws helps in the development of higher 
dimensional states of mind and planes of consciousness. 



All original and advanced thought is emancipating and healing. 



To come into contact with antipodal doctrines of different religions, 
arts, and antipodal opinions in daily life was the same effect on the 
child's mind and psyche as the switching on of the electric current 
has on the light or the motor. All that is needed besides is to direct 
the child's inventiveness, energy and courage towards optimism, good 
humor and kindliness, that is: in the right channels of self-knowledge 
and therefore knowledge of human nature, the sanctity of the flesh 
and the divinity of the mind and of nature. As imagining power, 
vision and phantasy making are of highest importance in the develop- 
ment of the individuals, nations and races alike for the casting of 
Destiny and Fate it must be evident that true education must pay 
highest attention to the transformation of the youth through child- 
hood to manhood, and must recognize that evolution of art conscious- 
ness and evolution of life's consciousness are wholly inseparable. 



The religion of the past centered on Healing through blind belief 
and which necessitated restriction of enlightenment; the religion 
of the future through complete enlightenment and a higher belief 
that there is nothing in the whole universe that is not God. 



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